Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt
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I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
Jesse Ball
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All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
John Hodgman
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'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
John Hurt
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Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
Michael Haneke
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Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.
Sophie Turner
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It's funny: being green to me was ingrained because my parents were always trying to save money, save water, turn off the lights, or arrange a carpool. I don't think my parents even know what it means to be green, but they were.
Su-chin Pak
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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
Steven Pinker
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I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.
Rory McCann
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I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.
Ruth Bradley
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To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.
Jose Angel Gurria
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Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.
David Stras
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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
Craig Brown
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