E. M. Forster Quotes
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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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'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.
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It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.
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I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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I know I speak for the Bishop when I tell you how sorry I am for all the pain you have suffered in your life.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
