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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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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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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I never thought I would live this long.
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.
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When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
