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book reading literature
Alan Bennett The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
theatre together literature
Akira Kurosawa For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
darkness style literature
Chris Abani You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
literature weapons
Chinua Achebe My weapon is literature
thinking people literature
Chinua Achebe You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.
literature easy teach
Chinua Achebe I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
gay color literature
Cheryl Strayed It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.
book literature remember
Cheryl Strayed A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.
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Brandon Curtis We experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being alien to it created a sense of isolation from the people we're close to. There were all these invisible barriers that were tough to reach through. So we ended up with songs like 'Alone, Jealous, and Stoned,' about how our emotions propel us toward these conflicts and away from the people we love.
perfection technique invisible
Alan Chadwick If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
spiritual invisible seeing
Aiden Wilson Tozer Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
arrows invisible cupid
William Shakespeare The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.
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Gretchen Rubin It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
voice giving invisible
Carlos Santana I am here to give voice to the invisible.
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Gregory Asner With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.
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Thomas Schlamme I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.
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Charles Studd Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
confidence discovery made
Arthur H. Compton Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
love-you thee made
William Shakespeare What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee
made clear ifs
Alan Greenspan If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.
mistake made ifs
Alan Greenspan If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
mistake self made
Alan Greenspan I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,
broadway film made
Alan Bennett If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.
film driven made
Alain Resnais I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
race conversation made
Alan Ayckbourn As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
firsts film made
Al Pacino I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.