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“It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.”

Reading Theater Poetry Reading

Author:A. R. Ammons

“It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!”

Ifs Luxury

Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard

“It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.”

Men Important Hours Mistake Leisure

Author:Agatha Christie

Source: The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”

Men Important Hours Leisure Leisure Time

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.”

Plans Masters Icons Recreation Remakes

Author:Steve Carell

“It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.”

Want Matter Purpose Passion Actors Becoming Fame Superstar

Author:Christopher Lambert

“It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time”

Matter Would Be Form Social Economic Truth Is Present Time Hegemony Chimera

Author:Michel Foucault

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have done, or how many months of wangs you've attended. The important thing is whether or not the mind is really changing, whether our negative emotions are really coming under control, whether we are really beginning to understand ourselves, whether our mind is really improving, and whether in our hearts there is genuine love and caring for other people.”

“It's not a matter of how old you are, it's how you feel.”

Feels Matter Motivational How You Feel Old You

Author:Mila Marinova

“It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.”

Wells Matter Use Circumstances Excuse

Author:George Lucas

“It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.”

Ifs Needs Matter Moving Democracy Moving Forward Who We Are Agendas Affirmative

Author:Jill Stein

“It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.”

Matter States Israel Expansion Status Quo Maintaining Maintaining The Status Quo

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

Thinking Writing Persons Soul Matter Form Flow

Author:Anton Chekhov

“It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.”

Life Giving Matter Painting

Author:Pierre Bonnard

Source: Bonnard

“It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration that have left the US government remarkably isolated, feared and often hated to an extent with no historical precedent.”

Action Style Policy Relation Historical Hated Public Relations Rhetorical

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.”

Matter Existence Israel Rejection

Author:Mahmoud al-Zahar

“It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.”

Thinking Matter Shows Given Standing Boxes Granted Faithful Telling The Truth Standing Out Frame Of Reference

Author:D. A. Carson

“It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.”

Matter Intention Over You

Author:R. K. Milholland

“It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as a woman writer and as a writer of color. Also, it worries me when people point to a couple of women writers or writers of color who get some attention - and I am sometimes pulled into that category - to prove that others are getting a fair shot. It's like those people who keep saying that racism no longer exists in this country because Barack Obama was a President of the United States.”

People Book Country Sometimes President Attention Worry Taken Couple Prove Racism Barack

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."”

Stills Wake Up Crisis Disaster Unhappy Life Crisis Mid Life Crisis

Author:Tom Hanks

“It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.”

Ifs Models Size Ice Ice Breaker

Author:Michael Palin

“It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.”

Thinking Writing Morbid Afraid Of Death

Author:Aoife O'Donovan

“It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living”

Wells Acting Method Screening Method Acting

Author:Conor Oberst

“It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.”

Children Care Sides Issues Nice Economic Treats Priorities Child Care

Author:Barack Obama

“It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.”

Song Tweak

Author:Rodney Jerkins

“It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.”

Art Moments Bravery Each Day Martial Arts Mma One Time Heroic

Author:Renzo Gracie

“It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.”

People Party Cooking Entertaining Stressful Therapeutic

Author:Eva Longoria

“It's not a party until the fire department shows up.”

Shows Party Fire Department Fire Department

Author:Thom Filicia

“It's not a performance to impress the Puritans”

Performances Impress Puritan

Author:Martin Tyler

“It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.”

Way Persons Mistake Amends

Author:Freya North

“It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.”

Actors Enjoy Pleasure

Author:Ang Lee

“It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”

Character Faces Enormous Grants Exterior Pretty Face Lack Of Character

Author:Alan Jay Lerner

“It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.”

Reason Environment Pretty Picture

Author:Jane Goodall

“It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.”

World Said Father Papa

Author:Chaim Potok

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.”

People Want Problem

Author:Chris Kyle

“It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.”

Problem Sin Ashamed Sinner

Author:Pope Francis

“It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.”

Problem Beautiful Five Four Player Football Soccer

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia”

People Doe Self Helping Problem Fun Mines Bears Pity Self Pity Cynthia

Author:Jennifer Crusie

“It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.”

Want Illness Staying Discovering Queries

Author:Jackie Mason

“It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.”

Want Believe Whole Bigs Company Management Don't Believe Administration Corporate Operations Executives Layers Infrastructure Reducing Arriving

Author:Carlos Slim

“It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.”

People Energy Environment Wind Amount Best Things

Author:Mike Hulme

“It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.”

Opportunity Noticing

Author:John Sexton

“It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.”

Hell Growing Up Growing Bud Grumbling

Author:C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.”

Happiness Alternatives Requirements

Author:Douglas Horton

“It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.”

Giving

Author:Benjamin Zander

“It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho”

Love Inspirational Contrary

Author:Rajneesh

“It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.”

Knows Tomorrow Get Back

Author:Freddie Mercury

“It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.”

Way Happens Goal Practice Transition Metrics New Goal

Author:Steve Denning

“It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.”

Dedication

Author:Ayn Rand

“It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.”

Artist Sound Chance Style Former Evolve Void Borrowed Null Random Chance

Author:Greg Graffin

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