William James Quotes
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.
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I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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When you play the king of elves and alien warlords, little me is very uninteresting. But, at the same time, actors feel this obligation to be transparent, and I truly don't understand the point.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
