Aaron Spelling Quotes
Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
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I don't have to be glamorous all the time.
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I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
