The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that... view

By: Fred Thompson

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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court... view

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them... view

By: Douglas Sirk

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Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists... view

By: Fred Thompson

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When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts... view

By: Gina Gershon

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic... view

By: Jonathan Coe

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame.. view

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary... view

By: Julius Rosenwald

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young... view

By: Theodore Roosevelt

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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly... view

By: Steve Wozniak

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I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this... view

By: Mary Steenburgen

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