Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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Type is your brand.
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Immortality... Is that a super power?
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I like walking on the edge.
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The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
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I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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I can't do much about my height, but I can do a lot of things in strength and speed and work on that. I'm going to try to do that the best I can to make me a better ballplayer.
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It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
