Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
