Madame Roland Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
