William Empson Quotes
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely. I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
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The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
