Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a character. I tend to think through and try and make characters behave in a natural way. I follow the character and think about what they would do, what decisions they would make.
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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
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I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.
