Kenneth Grahame Quotes
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
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I myself downloaded and watched 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Walking Dead' on my iPad while walking on a treadmill. I never turned a TV on once. I never inserted a DVD.
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There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.
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I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
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The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
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Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
