Amanda Foreman Quotes

What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.

Amanda Foreman

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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

Joe Jamail

PeopleThinkingFastNeverAbout

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.

John Barrowman

CharacterPersonalityThinkYouPlay

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

Michael Ealy

TimeYouEarnedGetAuditionAny

Guys out there have no sense of how their clothes should fit.

John Varvatos

ClothesNo SenseOutSenseFitHow

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

Tom Stoppard

ThinkBetterPlayWhyWriteHere

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

Miguel Syjuco

PeopleStartBelieveThinkPride

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Lucy Larcom

BestWaitWorldPerfectDesireKnow

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Liya Kebede

WomenFutureInvestmentDevelopment

Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

Juhi Chawla

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Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

David Tang

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We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

Chief Joseph

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Repression is fantastic.

Courteney Cox

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