E. Nesbit Quotes
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
