Selma Lagerlof Quotes
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
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Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.
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Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.
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I've had a lot of fans come up to me and say, 'I love the video song.' It's like it's a soundtrack recording or something. We'll never forget that the music comes first. I sometimes find video a little distasteful for that reason. People associate a band with their video images rather than with the music they produce, that's a little scary.
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One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
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For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
