William James Quotes
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
