Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us."
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
