Fanny Burney Quotes
She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.
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Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
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Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
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She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
