Confucius Quotes
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
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In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
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Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.
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People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.
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I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.
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If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
