George Arundale Quotes
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Custom is second nature.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
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When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between 'what is' and 'what should be'.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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Obviously I'm fast, and I'm going to have to utilize that speed, but I'm also going to have to be smart. I'm also strong, and I have a punch, so I'm going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever's the best prepared that night is going to win.
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Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
