Mark Twain Quotes
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
