Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
