William H. Prescott Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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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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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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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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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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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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Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.
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...if God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
