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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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
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The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
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There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
