Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.
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I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
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The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things.
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I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
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There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
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If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
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I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
