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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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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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
