Ethel Smyth Quotes
if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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Brothers don`t necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
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More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
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The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment.
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I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
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I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same time I would love to play characters that are so different from me that it would be that kind of challenge as well.
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if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.
