Coventry Patmore Quotes
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
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We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.
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Every why has a wherefore.
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Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.
