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I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.
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It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.
I and very
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.
I and flattered
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:
So I'm not surprised, but I was flattered and honored to be considered one of his friends and a cohort in Monkee business.
But Julia was actually flattered: " I thought, really, that was one of the nicest things anyone ever said to me.
It flattered my pride to think that I incurred no guilt and, when I did wrong, not to confess it ...
*" I once put it rather pungently, and I was flattered that the British Foreign Secretary repeated this, as follows: ... namely, in early times, it was easier to control a million people, literally it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people.
Carloman I stands in the unfortunate position of having been written of only by writers prejudiced against him, who portray him as peevish, self-pitying and easily flattered.
Jordan although flattered declines the honor, maintaining that he should be seen as “ no different than any other ring-slinger ” who did “ what any Green Lantern would have done given the chance !” Adding that " When it comes right down to it, I guess I'm just one of the gang " and so he remains, to the cheers of his fellow Corps mates.
However, he had written a comedy which flattered the vanity of Emperor Paul I of Russia ; he was quickly brought back, presented with an estate from the crown lands of Livonia, and appointed director of the German theatre in Saint Petersburg.
While he famously declared " I do not play no rock and roll ," McDowell was not averse to associating with many younger rock musicians: He coached Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar technique, and was reportedly flattered by The Rolling Stones ' rather straightforward, authentic version of his " You Gotta Move " on their 1971 Sticky Fingers album.
When invited to direct the production, Coward wrote, " I am thrilled and flattered and frankly a little flabbergasted that the National Theatre should have had the curious perceptiveness to choose a very early play of mine and to give it a cast that could play the Albanian telephone directory.
So if it's not too hypersensitive of me, I wasn't flattered to hear my name pronounced right, not on this particular title track.
" While I ’ m flattered that you are fond of my song, I ’ m shocked that you would use it and the name Boston to promote yourself without my consent.
Wall responded to Hambling's request to paint him with a note saying: " Re: painting little me, I am flattered indeed-what colour?
In 2011 Jarvis Cocker praised the cover version ; " I was very flattered by that because I was a massive Star Trek fan as a kid and so you know, Captain Kirk is singing my song!
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