Anna Howard Shaw Quotes
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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An agency once gave me great advice. They said: ‘Your website is important, but if we want to hire you, we are going to look at your blog.‘ And they were right. They want to know who YOU are. They want to know who we are as people, because they want to spend time with you.
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I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
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I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.
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I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
