Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.
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I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.
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It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
