Bernard Crick Quotes
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I find the business world hard.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)
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It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black, so I'm supposed to think a certain way? I'm supposed to have certain opinions? I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'
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The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.
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Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.
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As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
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Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
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Though Truth and Falsehood be Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.
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When I finally let go of the thought that I had to please everyone is when I became free to be myself.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
