Ariel Durant Quotes
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
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I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
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If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!
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Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
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I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
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When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
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You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages.
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The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.
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Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
