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George MacDonald Quotes

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

George MacDonald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905

Topics

Live Water Deep You Mud Inch

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Father Mother Determination Loyalty

You've got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I'm a big believer in self-belief, man, and going out there and working hard and sacrificing.

Man Believe Self You Damn Hard

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

Vision Think Universe Relationships

The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'

Life Business Artist Fame Product

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

Michel Hazanavicius

Loved You Movies Silent Storytelling

My hair looks awful while wet, I will say that.

Chord Overstreet

Hair Looks Say Will Wet Awful

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Brandon Sanderson

Science Magic Fantasy Science Fiction

I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

Funny Good Friend Think Doing Look

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

Peter Hargreaves

Tax Way Old Taxes Take Going

I suppose my professional life can be split into writing books that all sound like infomercial products, most notably 'The 4-Hour Workweek,' and then tech investing.

Life Writing Professional Sound Tech

At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare.

Day End Of The Day End America Bad

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

World Rest End America Liked

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