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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself. Edmund White

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Edward Gibbon

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. Edward Levi

Wisdom Time Memory Law Sometimes Passion Values Action Carries Responsive Wrong Instrument Practical Opposition May Which Forward Received

You have to show up when your show fails - or it succeeds. When you are enjoying the glory of success, you have to show up and still work hard because it may not last. You have to do your job with the same sincerity when you started and till you can actually do it with passion. Ekta Kapoor

I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all. Elena Delle Donne

Happiness You Women Passion Pretending Face Rather Like Sport Faking Doing Than Stand Things Basketball

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. Elihu Root

Rights Dangerous Passion Differences Adherence More Stubborn Most Opinion Self-Interest Real Than Suspicion Regarding Prejudice

I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my mother is the president, and she was an African politics professor for almost 50 years, so I think people know that I align myself with people who know what they're talking about. Eliza Dushku

Politics Myself Nature People Mother Passion Think President Align About Almost Feel Know She Talking Genuine Uganda Causes Hear Years African Who Professor Specifically

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. Elizabeth Kostova

Love People Sometimes Passion Statue Throw Hysterical Over Arms Because Around Falls Fit Sculpture Paintings Damage

I think passion in a physical way goes hand in hand with taste and smell. Ella Purnell

Passion Smell Think Way Physical Hand Hand-In-Hand Taste Goes

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest. Elle Macpherson

Passion Enough Market Born Never Mass Mass Market Name Truly Intelligent Celebrity Heartfelt Interest Successful Successful Businesses Businesses

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt. Ellen Burstyn

Work Business Hurt Sometimes Passion Young Difficult Think Directors Like Because Around Always Been Off Get Gets After While

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. Ellen Key

Great Women Passion Men Ambition Distinctions Small Drives Developed Well Tasks Which Race Social Deeds Works Now Competing Competitors

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas. Elvis Costello

Music You Passion Push New Ideas Sort New Ideas Curiosity Things

The best coach I have ever worked with is certainly Jose Mourinho. He has an unparalleled passion. Emmanuel Adebayor

Best Passion Unparalleled He Worked Coach Certainly Ever

I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me. Emmylou Harris

Me Dog Passion Become Pay Bit Kind Able Real Real Passion Anything Little Little Bit Rescue Even Second Career

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets. Eric S. Raymond

Best People Money Passion Field Way More Higher True Becomes Motivated Score Gets Any Just Skill Keep Level

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place. Eric Whitacre

Alone Passion Singing Else Hundred Earth Way Must London Could Go Five Get Place Choirs Nowhere Level Four Here

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion. Erica Jong

Passion Motherhood Think Completion Ourselves Out Part Expresses Orphaned

Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed me in 'Kings of Summer,' which was his debut feature. I got to witness the passion and hunger that first-time directors bring to projects, and ever since, then I've been very intrigued when I've come across a project with a less experienced director. Erin Moriarty

Me Director Witness Passion Summer Project Projects Hunger Intrigued Kings Directed Feature Directors Jordan Since Come Got Been His Very Debut Experienced Which Then Across Less Ever Bring

How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.' Esai Morales

Love Character Me You People Passion Father Own Fury Kids Tell Cross My Own Between Name Come Always How Real Still How Much La Up Get Often Where Movie Loved Bob Much Your Coolest Played Last

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day. Estelle Morris

Day You Passion Made Invent Pour Energy Mini Industry Roll Gets Again Next Should Your Cooper Film Film Industry Start

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. F. Sionil Jose

Music Passion Living Hundreds Russian Poetry Mere Feel Understand Audience Rhythm Lovers Urdu Roomful Warmth Pakistani

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