William Shenstone Quotes
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
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People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
