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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Topics

Book Down Paradise Lost Hard Up

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Jennifer Westfeldt

Collaboration Think Want Always Film

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I Am Book Copy My Own Own Dedicated

The place where I grew up is the center of surfing. Everyone who grows up on the North Shore surfs, and from October to March, you have the best waves in the world within a 5- to 7-mile stretch. I grew up in the center of these incredible sunsets and all these incredible waves. And then we have the Triple Crown of Surfing.

John John Florence

Best World Waves Crown You Place

I have a lot of critics, and that's fine. I think it's better to be polarizing than to be vanilla. I also think people can't question the passion and sincerity that I bring because I truly am the luckiest guy in the world.

Passion People World Think Better

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Intelligence Kind Restless Critical

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

Parents Choices Behavior You Become

Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!

World Enough Bold Out Crying Loud

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

Song Go Kind Write Stream Where

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

Community Caring Say Will Become

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

Opportunity Past Thinking Country

You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

Night You Find Possible Everything

I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.

Lie Night Thinking Stand Dark Bed

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