Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.
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The goal is to write a story that you're proud of and hope the fans like it as well.
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I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.
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Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
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You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.
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The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
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There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.
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But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.
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Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
