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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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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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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I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.
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'In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
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The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
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To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
