Thomas Starr King Quotes
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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I love Al Pacino.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...
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Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.
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I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
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What a privilege it is to be an American!
