Adam Foulds Quotes
He thought that the edge of the world was a day's walk away, there where the cloud-breeding sky touched the horizon. He thought that when he got there he would find a deep pit and he would be able to look down into it and see the world's secrets.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
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'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
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When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
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I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
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When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.
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He thought that the edge of the world was a day's walk away, there where the cloud-breeding sky touched the horizon. He thought that when he got there he would find a deep pit and he would be able to look down into it and see the world's secrets.
