E. M. Forster Quotes
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.
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'Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.'
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
