Fanny Kemble Quotes
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.
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All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
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There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.
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Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.
