Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
