Thomas More Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
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I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.
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I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would!
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When we discover this and give our lives to it, we are leaders. This is the Path of Leadership. Whatever our age or phase of life, we must enter and stay on the Path of Leadership. The future of the world depends upon it-upon you.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
