Ada Cambridge Quotes
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
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Much like every artist or every creator, I got into comics as a kid, and the most important thing was the 'bang zoom' of it. As many explosions as possible.
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There are certain characters Bill Finger created, aside from my main characters' and many other characters that I created, including the Batmobile.
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
