Sarah Fielding Quotes
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
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The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
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Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.
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There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
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My career is my girlfriend.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
