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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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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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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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
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Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.
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You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Emotional abuse is much more than verbal abuse. Emotional abuse can be defined as any nonphysical behavior that is designed to control, intimidate, subjugate, demean, punish, or isolate another person through the use of degradation, humiliation, or fear.
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And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.
