Wendell Berry Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Garry Kasparov
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I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
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I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
