J. B. Priestley Quotes
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
