William Shenstone Quotes
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.
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Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.
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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
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Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.
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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
