Ernest Vincent Wright Quotes
By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
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We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.
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I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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It was a very ad-lib show. The musicians were all great jazz musicians. Very little music. Usually, there was just an ending and perhaps a beginning.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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If something's working, you lean into it. You don't fight it.
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By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
