One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter
Recitation: by Male by Female
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
Joan Didion
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It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.
John Morgridge
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
Angela Duckworth
LifeExperienceMaturityBecomeMore
My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.
Michael Carbonaro
BeautifulGreatTogetherPeopleFree
There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.
Ronald Coase
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I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.
Michael Rooker
WorkHomeSpeakLearnDoingYou
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
Jay Kay
WorkGoodVoiceGuitarYouPlace
I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.
Jason Mantzoukas
ChildrenMeGoTellMothersStores
If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
Antoine Fuqua
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
Wladimir Klitschko
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
DoneLittleThingsWorldsMuchMany
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
Pramila Jayapal
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