Samuel Richardson Quotes

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Samuel Richardson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761

Topics

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Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Jim Hunt

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I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

Anatoly Chubais

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Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

Matthew Heineman

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I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.

Sloane Crosley

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I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?'

Roger Ross Williams

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When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.

Rodney Crowell

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I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Monica Lewinsky

MyselfMomPresidentMoreThanThen

The media's about to become a lot more effective.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Dorothy Day

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I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

Brian Tyree Henry

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The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Arthur Smith

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I think after 'The Day The Earth Stood Still,' I really stopped thinking strategically about my career. I just did. At that point, it became crystal clear to me that you can strategise your career all you want, but it's so difficult to get a movie made, and creativity shouldn't be subjected to that kind of strategic thinking.

Scott Derrickson

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