E. B. White Quotes
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
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Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
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It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
