Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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Patience and love can do anything.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
