William Macneile Dixon Quotes
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
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As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.
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She was his life,The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.
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It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black, so I'm supposed to think a certain way? I'm supposed to have certain opinions? I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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You got to realize there will be huge Elvis fans out there who'll be really critical, and I'm sure I'm my worst critic, but to get to do my own interpretation of Elvis and do it on a platform like this is really cool.
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
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Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
