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O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help… — Sharni Vinson Copy Share Image
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“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes… — Daniel Altman Copy Share Image
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Bicycles, bullock carts, and buses that belched thick, black smoke moved in anarchic streams with the auto rickshaws and cars along the… — Ken Doyle Copy Share Image
October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying… — Alan Lakein Copy Share Image
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A new setting is amazing cause it's new for the team, and it's new for our characters. It's a breakaway from the… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I didn't investigate Hillary Clinton before she was in office, I started investigated Hillary Clinton's actions after the inspector-general said that there… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
The event is placed at such a distance, and contained, that these images move beyond the context in which they were made,… — Jean-Marc Bustamante Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
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And so, in terms of setting the right tone and finding a way of presenting all of these things, that creates a… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world,… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
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