Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
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People lose in trade, and because our social safety nets here are so thin to begin with, the resistance is greater than it is in some of the other industrial countries.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
