J. B. Priestley Quotes
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.
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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
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I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.