Albert Pinkham Ryder Quotes
The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
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Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
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The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.
