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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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I can live without football. There are more important things in life.
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He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
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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.
