H. G. Wells Quotes
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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There is no such thing as death.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
