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"A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals."
"It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me."
"There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
"A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character."
"Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some"
"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)"
"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful."
"I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust."
"There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work."
"I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else."
"You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart."
"We lose all that time which we might employ better."
"Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear."
"Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure."
"Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere."
"I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance."
"One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life."
"Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written."
"Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession."
"I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards."
