Stuart Townsend (Stuart Peter Townsend) Quotes
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
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I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States.
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When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.
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Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
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It is not right to exult over slain men.
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My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.
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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
