The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The excess of virtue is a vice. ~Greek Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up. ~Jennifer Ellison
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Native American Proverb
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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