William Henry Irwin Quotes
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
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I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.
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Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.
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Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.
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Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.
