Anthony McCarten Quotes
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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'Our savior will resurrect us,' said Peggy, 'but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.'
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To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
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Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. ... We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence.
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They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.
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My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'
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Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.
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I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
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We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
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Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.
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As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
