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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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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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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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
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I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
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Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
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Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
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The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
