William Shenstone Quotes
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
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Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
