E. M. Forster Quotes
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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You've got to be realistic.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
