William Morley Punshon Quotes
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
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You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
