Alfred Richard Orage Quotes
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
