Mose Allison Quotes
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
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It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.
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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
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I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
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Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.
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For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
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But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.
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I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
