Phyllis Bottome Quotes
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Phyllis Bottome
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
Veronica Roth
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
Young Thug
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
LaToya Jackson
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
Warwick Davis
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
Carla Hall
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
Patrick O'Brian
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I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a room or out of a room, or onto the plane, or through the grocery store. The political stuff, the class stuff, the gender stuff, is in the air, it's in their interactions, because it's there for all of us.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
Laura Linney
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The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.
David Droga
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Phyllis Bottome