Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
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I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
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One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.
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There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
