Gerald Brenan Quotes
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
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Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.
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Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.
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I'm on this raised-platform-stage and I'm put on display, but at the same time I'm just a human. I'm just a regular person at the end of the day and, you know, I just want them to know that I do appreciate every single one of them.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
