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"Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy."
"Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded."
"It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own."
"When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew."
"Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president."
"And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!"
"Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference."
"That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people."
"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."
"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
"Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices."
"A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference."
"Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference."
"When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'"
"The wind blows on us all, but it's how you set your ssail that makes the difference."
"There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read."
"If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny."
"There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television."
"I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it."
"There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it."
