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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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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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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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
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I found out my limit. I'm not a singer and a dancer.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
