Clark Blaise Quotes
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
B. B. King
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
Sam Brownback
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Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door
Zooey Deschanel
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Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.
Marcel Proust
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On the campaign trail, candidate Trump occasionally raised the idea of creating 'safe zones' for Syrian civilians.
Peter Bergen
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.
Bill Burr
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'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.
Christopher Guest
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It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.
Clark Blaise
