Jane Austen Quotes
I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
Irvine Welsh
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
Victor LaValle
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
Gaines Adams
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Carine Roitfeld
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
Hans Kung
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Quentin Tarantino
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
Gary Sinise
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
Nancy Gibbs
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
Calvin Klein
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
Larry Brown
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
Edmund Morgan
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
Warren Spector
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The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.
Frances McDormand
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
Carice van Houten
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Government exists but to maintain special privilege and property rights; it coerces man into submission and therefore robs him of dignity, self-respect, and life.
Emma Goldman
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Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for? I do. But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book. I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus. And it will be at a wedding. And there will be a feast.
Donald Miller
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
Allen Iverson
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NATO is ready to intervene if the situation requires.
Javier Solana
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That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.
William Herschel
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I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
Jane Austen