William Ellery Channing Quotes
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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I have a couture body.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
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Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
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Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.
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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
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A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.