Lydia M. Child Quotes

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Lydia M. Child

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Anatole Broyard

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Music is closer to poetry than anything.

John McLaughlin

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

Ann Wilson

HeartNeverBandRealAlwaysBeen

Unlike what most people think, entrepreneurs are not special people who know how to do special things that others don't. Entrepreneurs can be made, because we're all born with the potential - that special human quality - to create.

Michael Gerber

QualityPeopleThinkPotentialBorn

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.

Michael Ignatieff

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I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

John Simm

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Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Steve Prefontaine

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Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

Tom Sturridge

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Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability.

Rita Volk

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You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.

Roxane Gay

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