James G. Frazer Quotes
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
James G. Frazer
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber
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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
Rachel Caine
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I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.
Hadewijch
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
T. S. Eliot
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
Ben Bernanke
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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Jimmy Buffett
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Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
S. J. Perelman
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Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.
Marianne Williamson
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I'd be a whale shark. I'd like to be the biggest. The winner. Size is always important.
Claire Holt
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I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.
Lady Gaga
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.
William Shakespeare
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I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.
Victoria Aveyard
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In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].
Curtis Hanson
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I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.
Harry Dean Stanton
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In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
James G. Frazer
