William Lethaby Quotes
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.
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All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.
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I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
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An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
