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“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.”

People Has Beens Made Stills Reason Stories Film Given Class Successful Written Industry England Wake Up Variety Shock Working Class Film Industry Successful Work

Author:Stephen Daldry

“In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.”

Facts Religion Individual Given Social Community Class Castes Social Class

Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.”

Men Christian Given Class Punishment Superstitions Mischievous Nero Historical Jesus

Book:Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men

Source: Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men

“But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.”

Knows Stills Ideas Whole Moments Use Science Lying Given Education Class England Present Moment Neglect Instruction Continents Strict Systematic Prominence

Book:The Works of Matthew Arnold

Source: The Works of Matthew Arnold

“The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.”

Has Beens Self Given Women Class Study Taught Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Basics Class Status

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.”

Men Mind Made Certain Given Wealth Class Conscience Paid Dear Envy Riches Enormous Suits Peace Of Mind Honour Bargains

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by champagne drunk out of their toeshoes till dawn, in the company of financiers ... no, most of their time is spent in filthy rehearsal halls, inhaling dust, or else in class, daily, year in year out, practicing, practicing even after they are already prima ballerinas.”

Years Night Given Company Class Minutes Movement Contrary Drunk Dust Dawn Halls Legends Ballet Every Night Vulgar Rehearsal Given Up Champagne Filthy Ballerina Financiers

Book:Death in the Fifth Position

Source: Death in the Fifth Position

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.”

Should Doe Art Ends Artist Given Class Poverty Middle Becoming Comfortable Training Should Have Complaining Middle Class

Book:A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue

“Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.”

“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.”

Men Giving Made Two Country Given Sex Effort Class Generations Groups Vote Fortune Command Secure Other Countries Suffrage

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.”

Character Helping Given Acting Situation Class Teacher Acting Classes

Author:Hill Harper

“Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.”

War Soul Action Given Class Aim Sake Leisure Honorable Preference Sure Thing

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.”

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe

“I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.”

Feels Long Film Given Chance Class Saws Long Time Classic Long Time Ago Really Long Good Chance Classic Films

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.”

Men Ends Purpose Energy Given Interest Community Powerful Class Particular Combination Concentration Efficiency Maintaining Aristocracy Powerful Man Energy Efficiency

Author:James F. Cooper

“A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.”

“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”

Writing War Ends Mother Courses Given Class Imagine Months Birth Skills Prepared Complexes Notion Nine Absurd Acquire Composition Naive Nine Months

Author:Mary Blakely

“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.”

Knows Mean Light Form Given Nations Dark Poor Powerful Class Rich Color Weak Skins Continents Colonialism Exploitation Consent Colony Subjugation Dark Skin

Author:John F. Kennedy