David Shields Quotes
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
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In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'
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…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality
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Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.
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If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.
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Some people will never change.
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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
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Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
