Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
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I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.
