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.

William Ellery Channing

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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.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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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.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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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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• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

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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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• I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.

  

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• I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.

  

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• I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person.

  

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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.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Faces
  • Temptation