Ellen Hunnicutt Quotes
Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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I knock on my board to unjinx myself.
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I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.
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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
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I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.
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I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.
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Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
