Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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War is over if you want it.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
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We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.
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When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
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How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!
