Jane Austen Quotes
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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Otherwise there can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organizations as members.
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The best revenge is to live well.
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Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
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This is a second chance for me, ... There's not much more you can ask for than that.
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We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a job with a driver.
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I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has gone to the locker room. Once the opposing team is out of the area, put them all (the fans) on the court.
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Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
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Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
