William James Quotes
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
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The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
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Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
