Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
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A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
