Ali Smith Quotes

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

Ali Smith

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I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

John Banville

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Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

Melanie Lynskey

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Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

John Travolta

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Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all.

Tommy Ramone

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If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Tom Hooper

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The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

Rudolf Hilferding

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Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Ludwig Bemelmans

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I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

Jazz Jennings

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I come from a Hasidic background; I am only one generation removed.

Jason Fuchs

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As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

Jon Meacham

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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Jon Corzine

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It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

Thomas Middleditch

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