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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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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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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If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.
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I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.
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If you can understand, you can feel compassion.
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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
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An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
