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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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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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 have always said about Tony Benn that he immatures with age.
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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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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
