Jacob Bronowski Quotes
The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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Your twisting is done – you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?
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There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.
