D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
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We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
