Emily Barton Quotes
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..
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I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.
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I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
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In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling - where the narrative originates and what happens to the content.
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I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.
