Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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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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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.
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When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that 'Sit Here and Cry' is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske's reel, I knew he was going to get it.
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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
