Emperor Wu of Han Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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I really hate to write.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.
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But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.
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Not loving is but a long dying.
