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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I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
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You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
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Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.
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Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
