I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. ~Wayne McGregor
#quotes #wayne-mcgregor #mistakes #practise

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
#quotes #simon-cowell #snow-patrol #band #music

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
#quotes #jorge-luis-borges #evil #ethics

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
#quotes #adam-brody #career #life #love

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
#quotes #irvine-welsh #remember #phones

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
#quotes #louisa-may-alcott #hero

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being; just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. ~Henrik Ibsen
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
#quotes #john-greenleaf-whittier #people

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
#quotes #david-morse #stories #film

Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
#quotes #victoria-principal #feelings #health #beauty

If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
#quotes #sylvia-earle #darwin

Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
#quotes #bonnie-l-oscarson #christianity

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
#quotes #kent-mccord #friendship #feelings #fans

The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
#quotes #lord-byron #emotions #happiness #weeping

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
#quotes #john-wayne #ignorance #hardship #humor

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #faults

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #life #home

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
#quotes #aiden-wilson-tozer #god