Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.
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Good design should be honest.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
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Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. We lose 'touch' without it. Visual space is the space of detachment.
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We have a tough week ahead of us and to get those games out of the way was important. It was easy for us to go up against a team that hasn't even won 20 games. They are playing relaxed and we are fighting to get into the playoffs.
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I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.
