Rich Sommer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
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Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
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Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.
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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.
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Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
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I only aim for fashion that's long dead.
