Anthony Storr Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
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The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.
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I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
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Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your ownAnd you watch them build the war machine right beside your homeAnd you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the warI know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.
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It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.
