Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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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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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.
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'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
