Carson McCullers Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
Taylor Cole
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
Zhang Ziyi
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
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I have always liked a challenge.
Damon Hill
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
L'Wren Scott
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
Natasha Bedingfield
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
Florence Henderson
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
Salman Rushdie
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
Young Jeezy
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'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a fiancee. Sometimes when I would introduce myself and say, 'This is my girlfriend Melanie,' it wasn't always clear what I meant. Now I get to say, 'This is my fiancee Melanie.'
Kirsten Vangsness
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One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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I think most of the people like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. They're pretty tall, and they can do everything.
Jose Altuve
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Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.
Ben Affleck
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
Carson McCullers