Edmund Crispin Quotes
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. (Hays translation)
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The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.
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But what will happen -- and I have seen this in previous catastrophes and hurricanes -- there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
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It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity, since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known, and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.
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Intellect stood aside and informed him of this fact.
