Bill Crawford Quotes
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I've always imagined myself doing well, whatever I did.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure.
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Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
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In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
