Matthew Arnold Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I still have a young attitude.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
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Ever since those reviews for SHOWGIRLS, it's like I was that woman in The Scarlet Letter. Except that instead of having to wear the letter 'A' for adulteress, I was condemned to wear an 'S' for showgirl.
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I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
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Only, from the long line of spray
