Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I will run against anybody.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
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Now I'm hunched over a typewriterI guess you call that paintin' in a caveAnd there's a word I can't rememberand a feeling I cannot escape
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My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.
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The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
