M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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A will finds a way.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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When it comes to melodies, production, and sound in pop music, people try to be formulaic and solely concerned with what's resonant in a way that is so cheap and ugly. It actually just devolves culture, ultimately.
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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
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Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
