John Kendrick Bangs Quotes
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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Every wishIs like a prayer-with God.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.
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A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
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Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
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We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
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Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
