James Russell Lowell Quotes
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.
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Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
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One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.
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Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.
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I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
