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  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
  • The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
  • Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
  • Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
  • In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
  • I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
  • I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Louis Kronenberger The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Doris Lessing A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Billy Corgan Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
    Icon Magazine. April 1998
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 244
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Dubcek After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • George Ade After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Becki Newton After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • A. M. Klein And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,
    When reading in these treatises some weird
    Miracle, I turned a leaf and found
    A white hair fallen from my father's beard.
    Heirloom (1982)
    A. M. Klein
     
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  • Barbara Mandrell And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Billy Parish Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bethany McLean Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • William Trogdon Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
    William Trogdon
     
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