Angelus Silesius Quotes
I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Too clever is dumb.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
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To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.
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You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
