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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If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion. I-i-i-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started.
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I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.
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'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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I don't want to be chasing a big, awkward southpaw around the ring. I want a fight that people will enjoy.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
