Anthony Trollope Quotes
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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I like guys who drive trucks.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
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Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
