Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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We are neither radically free to choose our nature nor entirely determined by our biological heritage.
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How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
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... Property can exit only under the guardianship of the State.
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.
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Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.
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Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
