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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova ...

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, ...

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is ...

I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. ...

I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. ...

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested ...

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and ...

Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that ...

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have ...

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter ...

Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question.

Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If ...

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.

I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

Are you saying good-bye or what?" Sed ased gruffly."Nope, we were making out," Rebekah said. "His sexiness overwhelms me sometimes, and I have to kiss ...

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some ...

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government ...

Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary ...

New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...

In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers ...

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me ...

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character ...

She heard its echo in the sound of the forest, in her heartbeat, and his.

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie ...

I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr ...

I shut the door and turned, crossing my arms. "I am not in the mood to Dr. Phil you two. I can't figure out my ...

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look ...

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. ...

Andcuffs, massage oil, some edible underwear-"Aidan held up his hand. "No need to explain anymore. You had me at handcuffs,

A nice note, Addy? You're calling the best orgasms we've ever had nice?"She canted her head, wryness in the motion. "Speak for yourself, Callaghan.

Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in ...

As I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

I never felt like a boy or a girl, never felt I should wear this or dress like that. I think that's where that confidence ...

Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, ...

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Neva closed her eyes and prayed aloud, asking God to kiss Belle's dreams with all things pleasant and awaken her in the morning with the ...

Surrounding yourself with what makes you laugh. Be intentional about hanging out with people you find amusing. Make a point to immerse yourself in media ...

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the ...

Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you ...

Aiming for the stars...there's so much to see out here, I haven't gotten there yet. I'm happy!

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence ...

The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have ...

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems ...

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person ...

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival ...

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.

Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, ...

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to ...

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. ...

The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something ...

Someone's coming," Sicarius said. "They heard we have raccoon vomit for breakfast," Akstyr muttered.

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were ...

Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens ...

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with ...

Every economic ... acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with ...

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on ...

I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the ...

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ...

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot ...

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman ... [the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving ...

I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we ...

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a ...

Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was ...

I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people ...

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the ...

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or ...

Music is the healing force of the universe.

It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The ...

The boring side of business is what makes it work.

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.

Eight? Was it really eight? Adrenaline or not, this was an insane time to be up. That was humanity's problem right there. They were brain ...

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny ...

I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.

I am alrrready herrre forrr you, Alex. Wheneverrr you need me, as long as you need me. And even longerrr," he said. "It is my ...

Any number of roads can lead to the corner office, and some of them have nothing to do with leadership.