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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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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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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I am from Colorado. I know Colorado inside and out.
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You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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Work is personal in the same way that finding a friend or partner is personal.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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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.
