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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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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A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
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Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.
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Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.
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I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days.
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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
