Maya Hawke Quotes
I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
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I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.
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Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like New Zealand. But there's just so much buzz going on; you can be inspired by anything and everything. There's always something to do. Always.
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I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.
