Brother Theodore Quotes
The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.
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I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.
