Matthew Arnold Quotes
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
