Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
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I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
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I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.
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I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde – not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be.
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I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge."
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The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
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The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.
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That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.
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People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
