James Payn Quotes
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students.
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Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.
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To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.