Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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When you hear 'experience,' that's all about resume. And Obama didn't have the resume. But we knew, long before that, 'steady in a crisis' was much more important than 'experience.' When you watched the presidential campaign, you saw that Obama was the one who happened to be steady... He demonstrated aspects of his character people were hungry for.
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I feel the most beautiful when I'm the most relaxed - for example, after a productive day of work or during a comfortable, rested afternoon. But I also feel great when I reunite with friends after a long time.
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To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
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Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
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For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
