William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.
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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
