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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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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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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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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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
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Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.
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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
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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.
