Edgar Snow Quotes
In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
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The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
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At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer:Preventing angels met it half the way,And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
