Winthrop Mackworth Praed Quotes

I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

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• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

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• I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

  

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• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

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• When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.

  

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• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

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• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

  

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• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
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• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
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• I join a lot of others who say, as someone who is a first time candidate, you have to realize that words matter, and the things you say have a lot broader impact, and I join those who are thinking that we hope that now that Trump is the Republican nominee there's a shift toward a more thoughtful approach to how and what you communicate.

  

  Bill Haslam
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• If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.

  

  Kimberly Elise
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• I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

  

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• I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

  

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• Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

  

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• What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

  

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• I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'

  

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• It's so nice to run into people even now who - if I'm out, a couple of times a week, somebody comes up to me and says, 'I just loved you in '50 First Dates.' That movie is my favorite movie. I just watched it last night.' In my head, I'm always thinking, 'You're kidding me. I never watch anything twice.'

  

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• There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'

  

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• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

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• If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

  

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• Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

  

  Michael Bloomberg
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• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
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• I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Heaven