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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Topics

Wisdom Ignorance Believe Individual

I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment.

Environment Adjust Pretty Adaptable

The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.

Melissa McCarthy

Funny Love Women Great People Push

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.

Andie MacDowell

You Know Vocation Being Model

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what he was saying.

Jean-Luc Godard

Saying Bad Wrong Something Saw He

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

Home Law Law Enforcement Action Stop

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

Start Stronger You Finish Everything

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

Dreams Morning Song Dream Down Will

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

Money Job Never Take Because Wanted

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Girl Great Style Me You Intention

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

Christopher Nolan

Think You Filmmaking Want Just One

When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As You Like It.' I used to think I would die if I could play that. But then I started doing movies, and I had children, and I moved to Los Angeles. And now I kind of can't remember what those roles would be.

Children Think Die Doing Remember

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Work Me Play Always Out Off

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