Elaine Scarry Quotes
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.
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We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I don't agree with that decision because I don't think by Saturday we will have a new (Palestinian) government.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Beauty brings copies of itself into being.
