Norman Grubb Quotes
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken -
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti -
Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
Park Bo-gum -
I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
Adam DeVine -
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky -
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
Randall Terry
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
Halle Berry -
It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
Hannah Kearney -
A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
Lapo Elkann -
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Fiona Shaw
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
T. S. Eliot -
The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
Lloyd Alexander -
Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.
Amiri Baraka -
We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.
Ashraf Barhom -
There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
Alaya Dawn Johnson
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I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?
Oprah Winfrey -
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan.
Anne Carson -
Good morning, God, I love You! What are You up to today? I want to be part of it.
Norman Grubb