David Ragan Quotes
A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
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Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
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Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
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For whatever reason we were obviously in some foul trouble. I don't want to talk about the fouls anymore.
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I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.
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A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.
