Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really.
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
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Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
