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 did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
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Truth is a great flirt.
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I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
