Fanny Kemble Quotes
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Let us have peace.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.
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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
