"The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it."

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R. W. Apple

#Country Quotes #Age Quotes #Television Quotes

“Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.”
“There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.”

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“UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.”
“I just make crap up more than anything else.”
“In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.”
“Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.”
“Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
“Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.”

Source : Léon Bloy, Jeanne Molbech Bloy (1937). “Letters to His Fiancée”

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