E. M. Forster Quotes
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
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I do a lot of ceramics.
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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
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I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
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Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.
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The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with this country.
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The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.
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I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
