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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When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
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Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
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I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.
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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
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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.
