Henry Miller Quotes

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Henry Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

Topics

FearManNothingStrangeMatterHim

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

John Cullum

SingingComedySomeoneGoGotGoing

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Jean M. Auel

PerspectiveSimpleI AmBackFar

As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).

Shinzo Abe

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I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

Dax Shepard

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We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

Clifford D. Simak

TimeDaySaidMatterNeverGone

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Brandon Flowers

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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

William Labov

LearningHomeChildrenStrongFirst

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

Sheryl Lee

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It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

Nico Rosberg

FatherTimeMeChampionBurdenNeed

I love writing comics too much.

Marjorie Liu

LoveWritingToo MuchMuchComics

I'll tell you what it is... just why 'Wonder Woman' worked. Or 'Bionic Woman,' or any of those, really. It was because it wasn't about brawn... it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy.

Lynda Carter

BeautifulBe KindWomanYouWonder

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

Hope Jahren

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