Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
Rachel Bilson
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
Samantha Power
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
Aaron Sorkin
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Peel delivered the best speech I ever heard in Parliament. It was truly a magnificent speech, sustained throughout, thoroughly with us, and offering even to pass the immediate repeal of the Corn Laws, if the House are willing. Villiers, Gibson, and myself cheered continually, and I never listened to any human being speaking in public with so much delight.
John Bright
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.
Ian Mcewan
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
Hannah Gadsby
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You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
Frank Grillo
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If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
