William Congreve Quotes
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
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There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
