Bruce Coville Quotes
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
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If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.
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As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.
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I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.
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To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
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The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.
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How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
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Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
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When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.
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Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.
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I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.
