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George Orwell Quotes

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

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Power Nationalism Hunger Tempered

I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.

Time New York Feel Wish Week Seeing

There's a rhythm and a cadence in a scene, and when an actor understands without any real direction from you, then that's a very valuable gift. And some people get it, and some people don't.

People Gift Direction You Actor Get

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Conflict Relationships Suspense Even

Too many people go to university.

People Go University Too Many People

My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

Style I Am Black Hip-Hop Who Am

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

Famous Nowhere Big Being Overnight

HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.

Employees Shareholders Customers

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Mickey Spillane

Name House Names High Level Started

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.

People Immigration Doing Help March

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

Myself Think You Know Anything Just

Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren't stuck in little boxes. You don't start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy.

Start End You Wealth Out Little

You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.

Jason Robert Brown

People Writing You Complicated Jump

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