John Ruskin Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
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I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
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Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.
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What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
