William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
Ed McMahon
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The world is too violent right now.
Jackie Chan
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
P. J. Harvey
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
Hank Sauer
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
Gautam Adani
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Nancy Werlin
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk
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There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
B. J. Porter
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
India de Beaufort
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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
Emile Durkheim
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She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.
Bryan Adams
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Banana Yoshimoto
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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
William Dean Howells