Billy Lawrence Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
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I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
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It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
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I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.
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Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
