E. E. Evans-Pritchard Quotes
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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I have a knife collection.
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To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
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While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
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Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
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You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
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Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
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The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.
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Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
