Jane Austen Quotes
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Quotes to Explore
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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'Game of Thrones' is the greatest thing I've ever been a part of.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
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The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
