Richard Aldington Quotes
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
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If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.
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I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.
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Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Communism is in conflict with human nature.
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I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
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Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
