Edwin Way Teale Quotes
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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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 train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to have had this dream to chase since I was very young.
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I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.
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Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
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The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard 'Love Me Do' on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.
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I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.
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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
