William Trevor Quotes
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
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There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
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In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
