Waller R Newell Quotes
We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
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I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.
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I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
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The explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
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The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
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We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.
