Clive Bell Quotes
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
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I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
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In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
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Women now make up approximately half of the workforce - very positive. Two-thirds of all families are either headed by a single-head of household or two working parents, and particularly in this economically challenging time, that second income is more important than ever. However, women are still only earning 75 percent of what men are earning.
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Comfort came in with the middle classes.
