Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
Taylor Kinney
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Majora Carter
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
Najib Mikati
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
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I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.
Jesse Williams
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When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
Joanna Scott
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I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.
Gabriel Campisi
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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.
Honore de Balzac
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
