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.Fanny Burney
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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.
Ralph Bellamy -
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe -
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
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.
Laura Harring
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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.
Jackie Earle Haley -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
Dan Pink -
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.
Kara Swisher -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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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.
Karen Handel -
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.
Ted Danson -
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly -
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.
Famke Janssen -
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft -
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
Dan Fogler
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I'm not a fan of seeing myself on TV.
Blake Griffin -
This is the biggest win of my life.
Paul Williams The Temptations -
I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Mariella Frostrup -
Im having an amazing life and it isnt over yet.
Cloris Leachman -
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
Craig Brown -
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.
Fanny Burney