Colin Fletcher Quotes
Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
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America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.
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The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.
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No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.
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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.
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We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
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Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.
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Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
