Barrows Dunham Quotes
The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
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The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
