James Anthony Froude Quotes
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've ever met my mother, you should know that's not even in the cards. She's much tougher than I am - she's a retired schoolteacher, so she's seen it all.
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If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
