Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
Garry Trudeau
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
Otto Schily
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
Olga Kurylenko
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
Kate Bernheimer
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I really like just super dry comedy.
Zach Braff
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
Gavin Bryars
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
Malala Yousafzai
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
Olivier Martinez
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
Jack Palance
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Floyd Abrams
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
P. Chidambaram
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Gary Shteyngart
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Roma come before everything else.
Francesco Totti
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And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.
Anaxagoras
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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
Susan Powter
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
Harrison Ford
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My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.
Zoey Deutch
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke