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William Godwin Quotes

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

Topics

Love Children Great Parents Human

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

Friend Music Style Poetry Me She

Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space.

John Lanchester

Learning Money Poetry Space Language

I always felt like I was healthy; I never felt like anything was wrong with me. Until the morning that I had a massive heart attack. On the golf course, by myself.

Morning Heart Myself Me Golf Wrong

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Man Me Advice Find Kind Out

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

Love Together Stand Never Hard Real

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

Fun Kid Big Like He Had

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

Life Perspective Job Peace Mind

When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook closes.

Character Doing You Follow Going

The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it's easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.

Time Me Care Doing Easy You

I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

School Child Me Energy Direction

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

Losing Win Winning Impossible Chance

I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.

Life God America Values Loving

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