Edmund Wilson Quotes
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom -
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
Laura Wasser -
I am passionate about human rights.
Hannah Simone -
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine Albright -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
Barry Humphries -
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
Gabrielle Union -
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo -
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
Kate Atkinson -
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
Irrfan Khan
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov -
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tecumseh -
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
Rachel Stevens -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
Tara Reid -
I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
Barack Obama
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To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
Nicole Brossard -
I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.
Ralph Hall -
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
Rita Mae Brown -
I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.
Joseph Stalin -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson