Eugene Manlove Rhodes Quotes
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.
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He was short on the one attribute certain to meet the immediate respect of the rich - i.e. being rich - and must therefore obtrude deterrents against being buggered about.
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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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I would really like to take on something that really surprises people and shows that I want to be taken seriously as an actress. Also, creatively speaking, that sounds really fun.
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Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.
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The more games I play, the more I feel comfortable.
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Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'
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Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.
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I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
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Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
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Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
