Bernard Beckett Quotes

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

Bernard Beckett

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Matthew Arnold

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Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Sri Chinmoy

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I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.

Robert Zemeckis

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As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Rupert Everett

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Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Michael W. Smith

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Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Michael N. Castle

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We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

Mitchell Reiss

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When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.

Judith Hoag

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Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Jonathan Raban

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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Chris Hardwick

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I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Brian Mulroney

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I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

Allison Scagliotti

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