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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For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.
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I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
