Gary D. Schmidt Quotes
Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
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One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.
