E. M. Forster Quotes
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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There's movies that I would've loved to be in that I just wasn't even considered for because they need a name. And that happens so frequently that, after a while - from a creative standpoint - you just want to be able to have that opportunity to work with the best people. That opportunity is available to you with a certain level of notoriety.
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It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
