Billy Donovan Quotes
The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
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Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
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Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?
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I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
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He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.
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The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.
