Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes
That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
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When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.
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A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.
