E. M. Forster Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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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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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
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As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.
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The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.
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I find most of my inspiration and ideas, feelings and thoughts are very close to death. It’s just that I have more fascination for death than I have for life. I have more respect for it. It’s the only time you’re free. I just feel like we’re all prisoners of life, I really do.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
