Quotes with make-shift

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  • Buzz Osborne I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Anne Dudley I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I wants to make your flesh creep.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Barbara Walters I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Donald Trump I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • William Wycherley I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Seneca I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Anna Held I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Arne Duncan I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray I would rather make my name than inherit it.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • George Orwell I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brooke Elliott I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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