Arthur Helps Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.
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I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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...we are willing to admit the normality of the abnormal-are willing to admit that we never understood the normal better than when it has been allowed to reach its full growth and become the abnormal.
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The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
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A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
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My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.
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Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with... Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.
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No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.
