Edmund Morgan Quotes
Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
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On a Spike Lee set, everybody seems to want to be there and is motivated to work in unison and do the best they can.
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All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.
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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
