Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.
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A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
