Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.
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On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
