Morris West Quotes
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
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What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
