Winifred Holtby Quotes
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away.
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We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
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I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.
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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
