Arthur Phillips Quotes
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
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People are rude in general.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
