Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
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What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
