Garth Greenwell Quotes
My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.
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I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
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Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
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My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
