Comeback Quotes - Page 10

• If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Journalism, Insult

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• The writer works in a lonely way.

  Irwin Shaw

  Lonely, Literature, Way

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• Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

  Jay Sekulow

  School, Church, Ministry

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• Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

  John H. Johnson

  Smart, Opportunity, People

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• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

  Irwin Shaw

  Europe, Literature

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• As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

  Antonio Tabucchi

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• At 50 you now have realized
  ?Getting old isn't fair?
  And that it's hard to make a comeback
  ?When you haven't gone anywhere

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Age, Gone

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• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  Barry Levinson

  Writing, Actors, Television

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

  Alice Miller

  Today, Kind, Should

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• Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, Insulted, Stills

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

  John Braine

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.

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• I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

  Bill Griffith

  Mother, Father, Army

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• If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

  Louise Brown

  Inspirational, Favors, Return

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• One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

  James Randi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

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• But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

  Hjalmar Branting

  Years, May, Regression

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• A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Book, Men

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• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  Paddy Ashdown

  Way, Return, Appeasement

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Organization, America, Return

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• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  Otto Frank

  Children, Wife, Hopeful

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• We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

  Shane Leslie

  Should Have, Office, Return

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• The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

  Publilius Syrus

  Return, Favors, Persons

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• Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

  Lillie Langtry

  Thinking, England, Return

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• I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

  Nestor Kirchner

  Country, Want, Return

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• On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

  Lionel Blue

  Girl, Way, Return

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• The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Lying, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.16, Lulu.com

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