William Cranch Bond Quotes
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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Love just happens, you know.
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Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
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You recall a girl that's been in nearly every song?This is what I heard of course the story could be wrong.She's the one - I've been toldNow she's wearing a band of gold.Peggy Sue got married not long ago.
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I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view.
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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
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I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.
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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
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Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.
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When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
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For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
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A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.
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You make me feel like a natural man
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When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.
