Leslie Fiedler Quotes
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
Leslie Fiedler
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
Sam Jaeger
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
Walter Kirn
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
Otto Wallach
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Karl Rove
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
Earl Scruggs
I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
Hannah Murray
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
Edmund Morgan
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
Nancy Kress
We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
Daniel Bruhl
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
Samuel Dash
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.
P. C. Cast
At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
Eric Lange
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
Mark Ruffalo
We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
Charles Dance
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
Leslie Fiedler
