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Audiobook Narrator Inspirational Quotes (652)

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For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.
Philip Pullman
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I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.
Robin Williams
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I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
Robin Williams
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Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
Toni Morrison
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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
Philip Pullman
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Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses.”
Philip Pullman
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
Robin Williams
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
Philip Pullman
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison
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If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go What happens if you take two?
Robin Williams
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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
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I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.
Rachel Weisz
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Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.
Toni Morrison
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Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
Philip Pullman
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Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!
Robin Williams
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It's the same sex all the time.
Robin Williams
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
Toni Morrison
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I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
Toni Morrison
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Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
Robin Williams
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There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
Philip Pullman
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
Toni Morrison
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Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.
Rachel Weisz
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There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!
Philip Pullman
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I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.
Robin Williams
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