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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray. — Martin de Maat Copy Share Image
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That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
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I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
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...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
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In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
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