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Christopher Isherwood Quotes

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Christopher Isherwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986

Topics

Country Land California Like Tragic

I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

Girl Me Sweet Forward Thought Doing

I enjoyed my time at DC. Dan Didio, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee were great to me, and I'm very grateful for the opportunities they gave me. Having said that, I think it's important to try new things and work with new people to keep myself fresh.

Work Great Time Myself Grateful Me

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

Writing You Look Find Down Nice

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Map Lucky Years Everything Position

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Stewart Butterfield

Life Music Art Creative People Deep

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Wisdom Teach Falling Expect Call Us

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Strength Live Music Power People Me

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Martin Scorsese

Good Time New York City Research

It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

Live Best Job People Game Play

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Man Better Guilty Than He Trial

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

Challenges Not Perfect Perfect Go

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Serious Chemistry First Were

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