Tim Bishop (Timothy Howard "Tim" Bishop) Quotes
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, 'Why, you are the very image of Meph-'
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Armatura d'Orlando paladino;Come volesse dir: nessun la muova,Che star non possa con Orlando a prova.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
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I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
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If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.
