John Cornwell Quotes

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

John Cornwell

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When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

Viola Davis

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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

John Burroughs

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Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

John C. Reilly

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I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

John Dyer

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My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

Andy Behrman

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The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

Meghan Daum

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I am very uncomfortable being romantic. I can be funny; I can be all over the place. I can be anything but romantic.

Amruta Khanvilkar

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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Mickey Spillane

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When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

Juan Williams

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Around Clifden, I like the place, and the people are great.

Colm Wilkinson

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As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

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Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

Anthony Doerr

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