M. L. Stedman Quotes
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)
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When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
