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Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

Topics

Man Proud Silly Ashamed Natural

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Change Great Time Parents Conflict

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

Guitar Legs More Playing Split Able

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Best Friends Someone Trying Person

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

Quality Baseball Writing Game Result

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

Words Man Mind You Now Lying

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

Good Think Young Now Connected More

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

Beginning You Project Bored Ashamed

To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

Strength You Mouth Body Teeth More

You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.

Confidence Guitar You Place Go Band

Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't know when it starts where it's going to go because they are unexpected events.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Travel Story Survival Unexpected You

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

Misty May-Treanor

Time Stop Want Up My Time Before

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

Success Music Country Fame Singer

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