Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
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Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
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A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
