Brian Friel Quotes
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
Karrie Webb
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
Taylor Lautner
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
Naveen Jain
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
Orson Scott Card
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
G. Willow Wilson
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It is a curious accident of history that the Christian religion became heavily involved with theology. No other religion finds it necessary to formulate elaborately precise statements about the abstract qualities and relationships of gods and humans. ... The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian.
Freeman Dyson
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
Stephen Fry
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It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel