"It is one test of a fully developed……" — Melvin Maddocks
"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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9 Quotes by Melvin Maddocks
Melvin Maddocks has 9 quotes on this site.
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
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Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
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Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
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Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is…
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Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.
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Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough facts and gave them a fast stir,…
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To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
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Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence,…
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More Developed Quotes
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do…
— Judy Biggert
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an…
— Edward de Bono
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Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was…
— Nicolas Cage
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest…
— James Allen
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I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of…
— Hugo Chavez
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Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil…
— Hugo Chavez
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We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the…
— Hugo Chavez
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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those…
— Dick Cheney
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't…
— Ron Chernow
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