Laura Riding Quotes
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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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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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.
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Cheeseburger in paradise!
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.
