Daniel Defoe Quotes
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.
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We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
