Laurence Housman Quotes
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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We had a bubble in housing.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.
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Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
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Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.
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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.