James Anthony Froude Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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Good material is good material.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.
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Truth is the best defense.
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
