Lord Byron Quotes
I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
Quotes to Explore
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Film has to describe and show.
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Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.
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When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
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When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.
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Every time I hear 'Miracle,' I feel a certain type of way.
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Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
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With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.
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I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.
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While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
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I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.
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Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.
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I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.
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One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.
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It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.
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It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.
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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
