E. M. Forster Quotes
... it is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I am who I am.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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In George W. Bush's case, the public paid far too little attention to the role of religion in his thinking. Many voters failed to appreciate that while Bush's religious beliefs may be moderate Methodist ones, he was someone who relied on his faith immoderately, as an alternative to rational understanding of complex issues.
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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
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... it is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
