Winifred Holtby Quotes
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
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As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
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The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
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Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously.
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L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
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Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.
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Mumbai is a spider web. You do a film and make 10 connections and do something else and make 10 more connections. You keep moving like that.
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When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?'
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I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
