Elton Welsby (Roger Elton Welsby) Quotes
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.
