Wendell Willkie Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.
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I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
