Homer Quotes
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'
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Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
