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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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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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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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
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I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.
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A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
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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.
