Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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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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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
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The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
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I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
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It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
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I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
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People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
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When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
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I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
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The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
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The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
