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James Thurber Quotes

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961

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Man Early Rise Bed Healthy Dead

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

Past Youth Roots World Think You

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Life Culture People Moving Smoking

I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.

Try Always Presence Bring Dynamic

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

Time Interesting You Know Minds

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Fear I Am Me Feel Dream Alive

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

Challenge Voice Face Confused Acting

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

Talent Out One Thing Use How Figure

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

Shoulder Stuck Saw Shock Looked

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

People Search Partnership Know Most

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Martina McBride

Music Teen Brother Sister Country

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

Respect World Greatest Our Some Due

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

City Growing Up Political Run Up

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