William Feather Quotes
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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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 would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
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There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?
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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
