Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.
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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
