Bill Harley Quotes
Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown. You hear them moanin' their lives away. Then you hear somebody say: 'That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.'
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
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I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
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The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.
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Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.
