James Thurber Quotes
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.
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Touring is not easy, as you always have a certain yearning for home no matter how beautiful the location you are in, but I have pushed myself to the limits and am certainly more aware of myself as a result.
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I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
