Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
Youssef Ziedan
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
Quentin Tarantino
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Mara Brock Akil
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
Mahershala Ali
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
Laura Esquivel
