E. W. Howe Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
