Susanne Langer Quotes
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.
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A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.
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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
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Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
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It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
