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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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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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 don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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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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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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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 U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
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When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.
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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.
