J. B. Bury Quotes
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I try to do my best.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
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My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.
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Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand.
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The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
