Alistair Cooke Quotes
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Fashion anticipates.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
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I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
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In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
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I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful.
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Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.