Alfred Austin Quotes
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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I've been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.
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Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.
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The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
