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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Quotes
Small word, wide range of thought.
This page gathers quotes that turn on the word "some" — a small qualifier that shows up everywhere from filmmakers talking about creative limits to reflections on real historical friction, including the 1962 border war fought over disputed Himalayan terrain. If you're also drawn to broader affirmations, the Good quotes collection covers similar ground from another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
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- Nov 07, 2020