William H. Prescott Quotes
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.
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There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
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I never thought of runningMy feet just led the way
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
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My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
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I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.
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I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
