Caroline Gordon Quotes
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
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A lot is going to happen before opening night.
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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
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There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
