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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
