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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Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
