E. M. Forster Quotes
It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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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 Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
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I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
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The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
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Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
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People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
