Matthew Arnold Quotes
We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.
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When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.
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Hospitality and cooking are my passion, and I love nothing more than seeing someone's face when they taste an unforgettable bite.
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I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
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I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.
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Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.
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We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
