Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
