E. M. Forster Quotes
Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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It's kinda all about image.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.
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Every field piece I did on 'The Daily Show' was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have - in this case, a real person - into said part.
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
