William Morris Quotes
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
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In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
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Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.
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When somebody throws something out the car window, honk at them, but don't give them the finger. We've got to temper our negative feelings about people who desecrate the environment.
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Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
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When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
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There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'
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As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
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It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'
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I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
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Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
