Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

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I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

Jennifer Egan

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TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.

Andy Cohen

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I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

John Metcalf

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I can't stand most things that I see.

Meryl Streep

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Tim Miller's idea of Colossus was to be bigger and stronger than everyone else, so for the motion capture, they needed an extremely tall man. I'm 6-foot-4, but he wanted Colossus to be over 7 feet, so they used a stunt double to recreate his height, and he did very good job there.

Stefan Kapicic

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There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

Trevor Dunn

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A network did not make me, and therefore, a network cannot break me.

Tomi Lahren

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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Tony Blair

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I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.

Roz Chast

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Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Mary Ritter Beard

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I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.

Mike Gallagher

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Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

Luka Sulic

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