E. M. Forster Quotes
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
