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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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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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
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People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
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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.
