Poul Anderson Quotes
People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.
Poul Anderson
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
Xenophon
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
Laura Bush
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
Harmony Korine
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
Patrick Rothfuss
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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
Chuck D
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.
Fisher Ames
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
William Hurt
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
Seth Godin
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People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.
Poul Anderson