William Empson Quotes
All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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I used to be very into fitness and would happily pose for photos in my bikini. Now I look at those and think, 'Where did that body go?' But that was before children.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
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All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.
