Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.
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Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
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The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.
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Roy Moore was an embarrassment.
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I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
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I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
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When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
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You could look at something a hundred times from space, but the next time you come around the world, suddenly it's very different and gorgeous-looking, just because of the change of weather or the angle of the sun.
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I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
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Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.
