Gail Godwin Quotes
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Go West, young man.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
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One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.
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In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
