Jane Austen Quotes
it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Quotes to Explore
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I won't join another band again.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
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I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.
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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
