Jane Austen Quotes
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
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When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
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The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.
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What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.
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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
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At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by long dark lashes, a full sensuous mouth -- and an irresistible personality. His name was Tony Curtis.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
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I haven't had time to review the entire audit but, from what I have seen, it appears that we're in good shape and things are looking up for us. We hope to continue improving.
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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
