Thomas Nelson Page Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
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If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
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The state of mind and the perception you can get being on stage is amazing. The feeling between us and the audience is definitely like experiencing another level of consciousness. I’d say it has the potential for mass ritual, really. The audience doesn’t have to be aware of that - they can be there just for the music.
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We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
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Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
