E. M. Forster Quotes
Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.
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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
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Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
