Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I would like to direct.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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To survive is to win.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.
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It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
