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Thomas Hardy Quotes

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928

Topics

Success Practice Constitution She

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

Community Tradition You Person Know

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

Jez Butterworth

Good Responsibility Think Neighbors

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

Life My Life Events Chilling Rally

Men don't really like skinny, do they?

Men Skinny Like Really

It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Great I Am River Song You Go

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Change Women People Black Cinema

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Music Someone You Street Out Avoid

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

War American Tradition Starting Us

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

Mary Doria Russell

School Anthropology Anatomy Doctorate

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Martina Navratilova

Hope People Think Stop Will Somehow

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Vintage Boy Ball Fan Even Teenager

It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.

Funny Live Today Money Past Back

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