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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
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"We're in crisis mode as black actresses. It's not only in the sheer number of roles that are offered and that are out there, but the quality of the roles. The quality - and therein lies the problem. We're in deprivation mode because me, Alfre and Phylicia, we're in the same category. Whereas if you take a Caucasian actress, you have the one who are the teens, in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s - they're all different. There are roles for each of them. But you only have two or three categories for black actresses."

Two Lying Numbers
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him."

Lying Dog I Love Him
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Lying

"Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again."

Lying Stars Stupid
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Sappho Poet
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"The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie."

Lying Night Moon
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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
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"Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . ."

Lying Mirrors Ordinary
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Thomas A. Edison Inventor
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"Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered."

Lying Stupidity Fishing
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it"

Heart Lying Memories
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!"

Lying Soul Heaven
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
Lying

"Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back."

Children Lying Christian
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
Lying

"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream."

Dream Lying Time
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Renata Adler Author, Journalist
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"Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense."

Lying Sexy Movie
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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations."

Believe Lying Science
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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple."

Lying Science Simple
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Thomas Hughes Author, Novelist
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"At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes."

Lying Kings Hero
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory."

Lying Grace Self Esteem
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