T. E. Lawrence Quotes
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
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I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.
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We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
