Laura Moser Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
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Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
