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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A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.
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I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
