Edgar Snow Quotes
The truth seemed to be that a revolutionary army anywhere was always in danger of becoming too puritanical, rather than the contrary.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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For every laugh, there should be a tear.
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That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
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We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
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Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.
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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.
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The truth seemed to be that a revolutionary army anywhere was always in danger of becoming too puritanical, rather than the contrary.
