Brian Morton Quotes
Maybe it was three strikes, because not only was she an intellectual, she was a feminist. Which meant that if she ever managed to finish this book, reviewers...
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
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Elizabeth Moon's antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.
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I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
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Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Maybe it was three strikes, because not only was she an intellectual, she was a feminist. Which meant that if she ever managed to finish this book, reviewers...
