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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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
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So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
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Avaunt, you cullions!
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Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.
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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.
