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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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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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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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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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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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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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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During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
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There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
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When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
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Competition for power is of two sorts: between organizations, and between individuals for leadership within an organization.
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I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
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The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
