"I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success."
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"I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
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"[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres."
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"The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine."
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"Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be."
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"The only sin in the world is ignorance."
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"I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour."
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"Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution."
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"Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time.""
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"It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount."
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"Oh, one world at a time!"
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"In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world."
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"This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!"
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"The world laughs in flowers."
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"Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world."
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"There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation."
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"In the wilderness is the salvation of the world."
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"Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted."
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"I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off."
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"The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen."
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