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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I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
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Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.
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Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.
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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
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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.
