George Pope Morris Quotes
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.
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Man I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off.
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Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.
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Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
