Thomas Starr King Quotes
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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We've always believed in our music.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.
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Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.
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I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
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Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
