Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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When you call me that, smile!
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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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'Oh, I see,' said Jenny. 'But you're just getting these men New Age gurus to help you all feel better. I thought when you talked about helping people you meant other people. You know, like the blind.'Isn't everybody blind, in one way or another?' asked Wendy.
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Failure is not a disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one... My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.
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I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.
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I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as much artistically. They're different beasts, but to tackle an expansive country like the United States, you're either going to write a big novel, or go in to various points on the map and write stories or poems.
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In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.
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I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
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A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.
