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Jim Fowler Quotes

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 9, 1932

Topics

World Country More Resources Natural

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

Discipline Writing You Want Write

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Queen Week You Know Say Become

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

Good Loved Enough Band Been Just

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Music People Me Process Acting Us

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Fear Government Bureaucracy Big

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

Me Think Elephant Media Perfect

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

Jason Priestley

Yourself Society You Never Does

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Education Possibilities You More

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

Poetry Powerful Feelings Emotion

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

Situation Inevitable True May

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

Work Change Time Walk I Am Trees

All this terminology of rankings - forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever - we're done with that.

Pierre Nanterme

Done Whatever Forcing Along Curve

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