Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
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In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
