Jane Austen Quotes

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

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• Sorrow
• Wickedness

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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

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• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

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• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

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• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

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• I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

  

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• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

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• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

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• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

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• I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

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• I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

  

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• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

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• I didn't even know that there was a startup culture, that there were events with people who built businesses. When I started meeting those people and going in to that world, I felt like I was among my people for the first time in my life.

  

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• In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

  

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• When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Sorrow
  • Wickedness