Patrick White Quotes
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
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I think part of the beauty of being a pop phenomenon is that you're going 1,000 miles per hour, and it's all happening - and that's also the hard part about it.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
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Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
