Richard Whately Quotes
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.
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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
