Edmund Gosse Quotes
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
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I always played to win.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
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I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
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It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
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I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.
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Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
