Albert Scott Crossfield Quotes
Later I helped some boys build Southern California’s first model airplane powered by a (hand-built ) gasoline engine.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.
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I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
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I'm a drama nerd.
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I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.
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I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
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I may have spent the morning tracking down a lunatic thanks to a holographic image of my dad, hallucinated, and wound up in a potential terrorist’s office where I had a super weird conversation, but at least pastizzi are normal.
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Later I helped some boys build Southern California’s first model airplane powered by a (hand-built ) gasoline engine.
