James Payn Quotes

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

James Payn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 28, 1830 - March 25, 1898

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You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Andrew Haigh

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I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

John Mellencamp

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I'm really rubbish at putting anything on my skin, because I don't like the feel of it. But I do love Kate Moss' Rimmel lipsticks - I keep them in all my coat pockets.

Sophie McShera

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I've always been a very self-aware person.

Troy Polamalu

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Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

Tracy McGrady

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I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

Travis Beacham

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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Robert Burton

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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Jay London

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We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

Debbie Reynolds

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But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Coolio

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I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

Brian Jordan

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I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Brad Paisley

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