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Joseph Conrad Quotes

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: polish
Birth: December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

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Women Honor You Know Never Hold

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

School Energy Remember Acting Way

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Great Time College Long You Jail

Toni Morrison was a big influence on my work since I was a teenager, what she did with English. I joke that I think she speaks 20 Englishes simultaneously, that she knows how to do that.

Robin Coste Lewis

Work Influence Think She Joke Big

A scene, a day of shooting, can often make you feel kind of stupid and inept because your one job is to anticipate and react and know what to go for.

Day Job Stupid Feel You Know

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

You Place Hard Last Get Who Cares

All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.

Myself Best Me Think Self Present

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Change Great Losing Ability Without

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Injustice Same Defending Passivity

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Education Great Man Night Chance

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

School College High School Guitar

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

Change Music Believe Key Measure

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Responsibility Government Democracy

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