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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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
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At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
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. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .