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Samuel Butler Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Topics

Work Music Architecture Man Portrait

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

Religion Politicians Up Bring Really

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Control Society Foundation Ownership

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Life Community I Am World Believe

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

God Science Rock And Roll Rock Roll

I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.

Trombone Shorty

New True Write Things Last Working

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

Start Brand American You Become

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

Mom Full Lebanese Three-Quarters Dad

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

Character Walk Look Will Film Move

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Succeed Design Look Entertainment TV

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

Business Happy Face You Bad Say

If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

Time Writing Building Library Rich

I love being home at Christmastime.

Love Home Being I Love

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