Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself.
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Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.
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I don't normally do pure historical work.
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My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
