Thomas Hardy Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
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I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.
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Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.
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You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
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A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
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The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.
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To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
