Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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I have never played a game in my life.
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I am personally committed to creating a chief information officer in government to coordinate our efforts.
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I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.
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Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.
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We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.
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I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
