Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature.
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When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
