E. M. Forster Quotes
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I just can't read music.
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Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
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I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques
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Have I ever abused a woman? Never.
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I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.
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I don't really call myself a composer.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
