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Richard Burton Quotes

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984

Topics

Myself I Am Writing Feeling Place

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Home Lie Christian You Values Rules

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

Business Money Theatre Someone Back

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Life Me Writing Internet Year Down

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Problems Through Determined Role

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Work Day Football Past Training Me

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Day Night Skin Over Head May

We have very close relationships with our Canadian customers.

Dennis Muilenburg

Relationships Close Customers Our

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

Purpose Mind Thinking Doing Real

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Art Writing Reading Thinking Well

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

Direction Need Same Standards Well

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Great Poetry Victory Growing Over

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

Live Justice Society Place Want Ask

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