Kenneth Grahame Quotes
I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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It can't be pretty without being ugly first.
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If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.
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I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.
