William Gurnall Quotes
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
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Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
