William Ellery Channing Quotes
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.
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Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
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What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
