Constance Rourke Quotes
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
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It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.
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I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
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What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.
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I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.
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I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the '90s.
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I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
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I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.
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There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
