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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859

Topics

Pain Bear Pleasure Because Hated

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Free Wonder Modern Who Your Set

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

Work Employees Doing Hurdles Despite

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.

Live Me Book Thinking Feel You

On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.

Girl School Queen Universe You Know

I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.

Beauty Women Music Great Mountains

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

Family Job Travel Adventure Quit

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

Anne Hutchinson

Women Time Rule Clear Must Lies

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

Life My Life Said Talk Never Gone

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

Nature Love Me Know Never She

I do consider myself a film geek. I love television and film.

Love Myself Television Film Geek

I'm not opposed to talking about airline food.

Food Talking Airline About Opposed

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

People View Cinema Understand Some

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