Wesley Morris Quotes

Part of what's mesmerizing about 'The Mechanics of History' is its physical eloquence - how dancerly it is. The men don't fall; they float. And when the trampoline restores them to the staircase, they move at a half speed. Cinema, they say, is 24 frames per second.

Wesley Morris

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I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

Jerry O'Connell

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We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

Andrew J. Bernstein

StressEnjoyAccomplishNeedGet

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

Meghan Daum

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I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

Matt LeBlanc

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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

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I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

Srikumar Rao

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Any band will say that they'd be nothing without the fans.

Su-chin Pak

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The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

Tony Randall

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The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations.

Julia Quinn

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I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

Brie Larson

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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

Bruce Cockburn

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Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.

Phil Robertson

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