World Quotes
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.
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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
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For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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We are the adult power in the world. It is because of the United States, our action or inaction, that there will be a resolution here.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
