Edith M. Thomas Quotes
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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No One said there'd be night like this, Risk your life for a stolen kiss.
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I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
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You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
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In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.
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He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.
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A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
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The Truth is the Truth.
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To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!
