Wright Morris Quotes
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
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My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.
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You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.
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'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.
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If you can measure your height from head to heaven, he is taller than you.
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There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
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I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
