Jane Austen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I am a very selfish person.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
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I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
