Winston Churchill Quotes
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison
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London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
Dolly Parton
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
Edgar Bergen
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
