Bayard Taylor Quotes
My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
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It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
