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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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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You have to win something for people to think about you.
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It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
