E. M. Forster Quotes
Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I hope to be acting until I am 90.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.
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We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.
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If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!
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Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.
