William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
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The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I want to represent Canada so I can represent my mother.
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This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
