William Mulock Quotes
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
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I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
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'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.
Colson Whitehead -
The critical study of the philosophies of the past should lead to the study of modern theories. For these latter, born of the fire of contemporary struggles, are militant and alive.
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And the three women, after crying, felt united in a love.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.