Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
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Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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Wine enlivens the human soul.
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Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
