"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."

Son, Hunting, Now, Pleasure

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"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."

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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

Mercedes McCambridge, American Actress

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"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

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"A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son."

Levon Helm, American Musician

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"The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently."

Patty Hearst, American Celebrity

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"To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison."

Jim Bakker, American Celebrity

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"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."

Albert Szent Gyorgyi, Hungarian Scientist

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"Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry."

Elizabeth I, English Royalty

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"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."

F. Murray Abraham, American Actor

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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

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"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."

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"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."

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"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."

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"The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed."

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"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."

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"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."

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"My religion lies in my composition."

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"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"

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