E. B. White Quotes
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
