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Will Durant Quotes

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Topics

Good History Say Nothing Clever

I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.

Melina Matsoukas

Comedy Look Create Kind Way Bright

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

Home City World Strong Way Up

There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

Truth War Me Appreciate View You

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Mother Teacher Vision College Me

I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

Think You Write Out Fiction Going

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

Life Positive Balance My Life Want

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Style Words True Places Definition

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

Douglas Coupland

Art People Book Doing You Say

By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.

Health Quality Training Care Goal

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Best Man Singing Thought Long Nice

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

Character Control Feel Sometimes

Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.

Work Foundation Political

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