Iris Murdoch Quotes
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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One saw I was alive. Loosenedhis belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
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If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.
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TV is tricky. You can do some stuff and people will tune out and never tune back in. It's sort of like putting a bad taste in somebody's mouth. Some people may not ever tune in again. And then there's some people that will tune in just to tune in and see what's gon' happen.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
