Hippolyte Taine Quotes
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.Hippolyte Taine
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan -
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.
Samantha Shannon -
I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
Taylor Lautner -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria -
All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
Mandy Patinkin
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
Idina Menzel -
When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
Yoko Ono -
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully -
It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
Rae Carson -
You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
R. D. Laing
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
Cormac McCarthy -
When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
The Notorious B.I.G. -
I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James -
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
Aristotle -
Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results.
Emma Pooley
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I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.
Paul Dano -
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Hippolyte Taine