Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!
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There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
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I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.
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I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.
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You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
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We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
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America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.
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Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
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Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.
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Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
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I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.
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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
