E. M. Forster Quotes
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
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We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two and a half. Obviously, playing hockey we want to be known as good hockey players and hard working guys that earn everything they get.
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In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.
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With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
