E. B. White Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit - I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
