Awful Quotes - Page 17

• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Home, Writing, Suicidal

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

  John Denver

  Divorce, World

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• I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

  Amanda Bynes

  Interesting, Paper, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

  Barbra Streisand

  Fear, Want, Used

  "Fearless People Greet Fear at the Door" by Jonathan Alpert, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

  Sidney Lanier

  Writing, Soul, Trying

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• New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  New York, Lying, Machines

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• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Animal, Race

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• Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

  Julie Burchill

  Writing, Hands, People

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

  Jane Goodall

  Decision, Political, Trying

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• It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

  Paul Davies

  Regret, Discovery, Problem

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• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  Gene Hackman

  Careers, Choices, Actors

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Pairs

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• Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

  Michael Landon

  Important, Littles, Moments

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• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

  John Burroughs

  Hate, Moon, Apples

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• I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.

  David Boies

  Mean, Thinking, Rights

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• It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

  William Morris Hunt

  Pain, Fall, Giving

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• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Class, Excluded, Concepts

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• I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

  Lucy Lawless

  Night, Acting, Sitting

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• A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

  Denzel Washington

  Criticism, Tables, Might

  "Denzel Washington". Book by James Robert Parish, 2009.

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• I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

  Ronnie Wood

  Thinking, Trying, Body

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• I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

  James Lovelock

  Thinking, Pessimist, Happens

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• Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

  Agnes Smedley

  Love You, Living Right, Sides

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• I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

  Tim Roth

  Function, Invited

  "Tim Roth: who's the daddy?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  Patrick Duffy

  Thinking, Dallas, Done

  "Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman on Returning to 'Dallas': 'We Do What Linda Says'" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 06, 2012.

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• It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Girlfriend, House, Waiting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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