Thomas More Quotes
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
Quotes to Explore
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
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When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
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A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.
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Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
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If somebody asks me why we played in Baku, I would say: People live there, homo sapiens live there.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
