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 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 music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
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I went to college to play football, not to study it.
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We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don't believe that is the case. If you have a good attitude toward aging, and you do what you can to live healthy and take care of yourself, I don't think the number matters.
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I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it's to be a basketball player or scientist... if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.
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Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.
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The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.
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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.
