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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The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation.
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The furies who indulge the happiness of today to feed the violence of tomorrow.
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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'
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I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
