J. B. Priestley Quotes
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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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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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.
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Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
