Edward Thomas Quotes
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
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A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
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Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.
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I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
