Edmund Morris Quotes
Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
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In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.
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We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
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I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.
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'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
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It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.
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Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.
