E. M. Forster Quotes
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
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I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
