Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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I have matured a lot.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
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I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.
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One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
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What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.
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An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
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We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
