H. G. Wells Quotes
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
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We should have a banquet on the day haters die.
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We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.
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The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.
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I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
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I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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Ch. 3, Section 1
