Raymond Williams Quotes
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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You never told me he was that fucking good.
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What fascinates me about Duchamp is the idea of tearing down the wall between the art object and reality.
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You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment.
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It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
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He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
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There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
