George Meade Quotes
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
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... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
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I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
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I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.
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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.
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Mr. Greenwood, when moving the Amendment yesterday, told us that the war would shake many strongly held views. I fear that this war will do very much more than that. The war will bring about changes which may be fundamental and revolutionary in the economic and social life of this country. On that we are all agreed.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
