E. L. James Quotes
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now performs miracles like the gods of old, creating life from blood cells or bacteria, or a spark of metal. But they're perfect creatures and in that way they couldn't be less human. There are things machines will never do, they cannot possess faith, they cannot commune with God. They cannot appreciate beauty, they cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us, they'll be us.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.
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Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
