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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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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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'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship.
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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.
