Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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A part of me understands why a mother is equally proud of all her children, but that little boy inside me just wants my mom to say, out loud but even just to me, 'I'm a little bit prouder of you.'
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
