John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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Love is an interesting thing.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
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Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.
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I never knowed there was such a place as this.I guess there’s probably every kind of place you can think of.
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'Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter’s, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter’s wheel.'
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The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.
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The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
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In mirth that after no repenting draws.
