Arthur Ransome Quotes
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I am a journalist.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
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This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.
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I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
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If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.
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I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.
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When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
