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For nothing was simply one thing.
Virginia Woolf / Writer
Lighthouse
One Thing
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Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
Morrissey /
Heart
Lighthouse
Peru
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A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
Church
Lighthouse
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Navjot Singh Sidhu / Cricketer
Dangerous
Fallen
Lighthouse
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Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan / Writer
Humans
Lighthouse
Mind
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What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?
Catherine Drinker Bowen / Writer
Work
Lighthouse
Pioneers
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Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.
Henry Ward Beecher / Minister
Barren
Coast
Lighthouse
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The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.
Robert Eggers /
Lighthouse
Witch
Planned
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Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
Tom Baker / Actor
Heart
Light
Lighthouse
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
Virginia Woolf / Writer
Laying Down
Lighthouse
Vision
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The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.
Robert Eggers /
Lighthouse
Few People
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The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing
Thomas S. Monson / Author
Failing
Lighthouse
Lord
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Henry James / Writer
Darkness
Lighthouse
Revolving
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens / Writer
Life
Success
Men
Lighthouse
Situation
Quick
Took
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic / Poet
Empty
Lighthouse
Ships
Inside
Bottle
Constructing
Making
While
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant / Philosopher
Ocean
Dark
Lighthouse
Metaphysics
Philosophic
Philosophical
Philosophy
Shores
Strewn
Wreck
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We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
George Downing /
Lighthouse
Biggest
Way Down Go
Paddle
Peak
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If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
Mehmet Murat Ildan / Writer
Ifs
Lighthouse
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And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
Ford Madox Ford / Novelist
Lighthouse
Moments
Moving
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Men
Lighthouse
Thinking
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She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
Lucinda Riley / Author
Fire
Lighthouse
Virginia
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Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.
Geert Wilders / Dutch Politician
Dark
Democracy
Identity
Israel
Lighthouse
Part
European
Region
Tyrannical
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
Robert M. Pirsig / Writer
Ideas
Lighthouse
People
Me People Ideas
Writer
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I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.
Robert Eggers /
Lighthouse
Witch
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My brother and I grew up in a setting in the woods very much like 'The Witch' in southern New Hampshire, and then we would drive up north to Maine to settings like 'The Lighthouse' for vacations.
Robert Eggers /
Hampshire
Lighthouse
Maine
New Hampshire
Setting
Southern
Witch
Woods
Vacations
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When 'The Lighthouse,' bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two people to play the roles. And I knew that they would want to do it.
Robert Eggers /
Clear
Film
Lighthouse
Roles
Wanted
Became
People Play Want
Two People
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It's pretty easy to learn about lighthouses because there's a lot of lighthouse enthusiasts. Really, there's lots of books about it, and it's fairly easy to find lighthouse keepers' journals and logbooks.
Robert Eggers /
Lighthouse
Fairly
Journals
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You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.
Stacy Schiff / Author
Contact
Lighthouse
Remains
Scuba
Dive
Harbor
Scuba Dive
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I went through the immigration thing. But when I got to New York it wasn't so tough for me. I went to school. I went to P.S. 57, then I went to the Lighthouse for the Blind on 59th St. I guess being blind is a great leveler.
Jose Feliciano /
Blind
Immigration
Lighthouse
Great Me New
Leveler
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Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.'
Robert Eggers /
Damn
Ghost
Lighthouse
Witch
Financed
Good Idea
Hanging
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The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.
Ann Cleeves /
Centre
Gallery
Lighthouse
Advance
Check
Visitor
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From Captain Britain's point of view we live in a great, heavily populated omniverse and our reality is just one part of that. In each of the parallel worlds there is a lighthouse on every shore of every England where the champion has his base.
Chris Claremont / Comic Book Writer
Just One
Lighthouse
Point Of View
Shore
Captain
Parallel
Worlds
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Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
Dierks Bentley / Singer
Country
Lighthouse
Past
Radio
Structure
Future Music Past
Country Music
Opry
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My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.
Honor Harger /
Jobs
Technology
Agency
Artistic
Brighton
Digital
Gadgets
Lighthouse
Tools
Perceiving
Societal
Transformations
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Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
David Lowery /
Conceit
Lighthouse
Orlando
Transformed
Virginia
Woolf
Affects
Central
Represent
Mrs
Passage
Specifically
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The Lighthouse' couldn't have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play around with genre. Jennifer Kent's 'Nightingale' is more horrific than any horror movie - but also, I don't think you could make that movie without this kind of freedom.
Robert Eggers /
Horrific
Jennifer
Lighthouse
Horror Movie
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I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
Michael Koryta / Author
Amusing
Curiosity
Eccentric
Ideas
Lighthouse
My Time
Small Town
Stories
Thinking
Woods
Seen
Idea
Curiosities
Dismissed
Float
Small
Newspaper
Newsroom
Somehow
Worked
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At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
Lauren Groff / Novelist
Cents
Lighthouse
Mysterious
Submerged
Sun
Bought
Copy
Grasp
Invaded
Picked
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