Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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You have seeds of greatness in you! I believe our lives as Christians should be the most exciting because we have the favor and blessings of God on our side!
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
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I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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The male quality is the creative gift.
