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Samuel Butler Quotes

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Mistake View Point Of View

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

Job Writing Hobby Acting Real Call

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Change Woman People You White Nice

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Camera Few Lot Actually Directors

What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'

Secrets Student Started Harry Potter

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

Live World Believe Inspiration Offer

There is something deeply disturbing about a popular culture that will not forgive the sins of the Confederacy seven generations past but celebrates the teachings and legacies of Che Guevara, Mao Zhe-Dong, and Jeremy Wright.

Culture Past Will Forgive Something

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Great Food Day Choice Boring Take

I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don't see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid's birthdays, anniversaries. I'll never be able to go back and be with my family.

Work Family Day Me Hell Year

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Relationship Time Simple Fool Ideas

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

Problems Thinking Sleeping Up Things

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

Think Someone Tribe Tell Used Us

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

Diane Setterfield

Life Ambition Reading You Down Up

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