"I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character."
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"In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves."
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"If Jews in the name of their religion were killing Americans, then I think that would be an appropriate comparison. But as far as I know, there`s only one religion that`s doing that, and it is a segment of the religion of Islam that`s doing that."
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"There are a lot of guys kind of on the bubble that can either be that sort who turn into journeyman kind of guys that will find a new spot or guys that can make a claim to be in one place for a long time. You can name a lot of names this year, an unusual number. And I think that most of them will be OK."
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"Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it."
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"The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body."
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"So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing."
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"I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"
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"I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us."
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"Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all."
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"I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point."
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"I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such."
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"The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance."
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"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
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"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."
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"Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith."
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"There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao."
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"Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord."
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"Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery."
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""Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in."
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