Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'
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We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
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In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
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There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
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When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what this was like back in the day when I would come here at night after doing 'A Chorus Line.'
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O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.
