Rory Stewart Quotes
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.
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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.