D. H. Lawrence Quotes

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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• The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

  

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• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

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• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

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• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

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• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

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• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

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• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

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• There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

  

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• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

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• It's great that people are interested in Mars.

  

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

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• Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

  

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• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  

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• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

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• I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.

  

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• Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.

  

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• I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

  

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• My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

  

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• It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

  

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Creative
  • Virtue