Jane Austen Quotes
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Quotes to Explore
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I am tone deaf.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
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With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
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My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.
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Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
