Margery Allingham Quotes
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
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I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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Never suntan! Ten minutes in the sun on a daily basis is good to get vitamin D, but sun tanning is terrible for your skin. It dehydrates your skin, creates sunspots, and can give you skin cancer.
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The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
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Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
