E. Nesbit Quotes
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant.
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People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Love is just a four letter word! Because that’s what it is for me! I don’t know what it means... I mean, love didn’t work, whatever the hell that is, in my life. Alone I am. I’m not particularly into self-love either. I’m quite prepared to die. And all the objects of my love slowly trail off.
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Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
