George Henry Lewes Quotes
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.
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It makes me feel better about missing a game. I hate to miss, but if we lose, I'll feel even worse about the job I'm doing.
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I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of that.
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We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
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I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
