Mary Astell Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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I really love all my fans and would never want anything wrong happening to them.
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Some Reflections upon Marriage, Preface (1706), Appendix (post 1706)
