G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
