Walter Pater Quotes
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
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I've lived the torment of the names. I've lived the torment of boyfriends breaking up with me because they were afraid I was going to be too fat later in life.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
