E. M. Forster Quotes
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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The men and women that are hired to take care of players' health, their salaries are paid by the team. Before games, you would see team docs and trainers, and they're every bit as as excited to, say, beat the Raiders as you are; their emotions are tied up in it.
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. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
