Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed – out skull for a spittoon.
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My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
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I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
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I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
