Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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I've been a big fan of David Wain's and was honored to get to be in one of his projects.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
