Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes

I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

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• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
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• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
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• Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
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• I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

  

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• As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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• I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

  

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• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  

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• If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

  

  Ian Smith
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• 'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

  

  Rick Riordan
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• What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

  

  Erykah Badu
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• One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
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• I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
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