Edmund Morris Quotes
Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
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In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.
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We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
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I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.
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'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
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The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
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Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
