William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Not my idea of God, but God.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
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I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.
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I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
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People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.
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I don't really leave the house.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.
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I prefer to think of myself as able to represent all walks of life.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.
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The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful.
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
