Edwin Muir Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
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I try to improve upon myself every day, and I try to make sure that I spend more time not doing things that I think I need to be doing.
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I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
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A maggior forza e a miglior naturaliberi soggiacete; e quella criala mente in voi, che 'l ciel no ha in sua cura.Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia.
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Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
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And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.
