Lewis Carroll Quotes
Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.
Quotes to Explore
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I am a just man.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
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My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.
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Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly.
