Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper bringsAll desired and timely things.All whom morning sends to roam,Hesper loves to lead them home.Home return who him behold,Child to mother, sheep to fold,Bird to nest from wandering wide:Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.
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Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
