Edmund Gosse Quotes
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.
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In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.
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I was a very wanting child.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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I like small, domestic stories.
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Service of the people by sciences and arts will only exist when men live with the people and as the people live, and without presenting any claims will offer their scientific and artistic services, which the people will be free to accept or decline as they please.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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This proof can at most, therefore, demonstrate the existence of an architect of the world, whose efforts are limited by the capabilities of the material with which he works, but not of a creator of the world, to whom all things are subject.
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I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.
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The past is a funeral gone by.
