E. W. Howe Quotes
When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.
Quotes to Explore
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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'Bring forth the horse!' - the horse was brought;In truth, he was a noble steed,A Tartar of the Ukraine breed,Who look'd as though the speed of thoughtWere in his limbs.
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I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'
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I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.
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When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.
