Edwin Paxton Hood Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.
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There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
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It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
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I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.
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You wanna do some living before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
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When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.
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Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
