William Shenstone Quotes
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
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In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
