Katharine Tynan Quotes
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
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The region is going through a very difficult process and I think it would be better to make constructive statements to see if we can cool down the situation.
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I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
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I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.
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The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.
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When I look back, I only do so to see what I've done in my past - my gold medals and the Championships that I've won. Really, I just look to the future and hopefully winning even more.
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I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves. s
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Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
