Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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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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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
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In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
