James Boswell Quotes
As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
Quotes to Explore
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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I learned a lot just watching people perform.
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I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
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As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
