Arnold Bennett Quotes
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
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When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.
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You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
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I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.
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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
