Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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 -
I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.
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I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
