Ellis Peters Quotes
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
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'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
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I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.
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I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.
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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices, telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown our the faint sounds emitted from our souls, and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.
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There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
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The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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I like English parks.
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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
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Best original song nomination in 2016 should be Wiz Khalifa for "See You Again," but this is an amazing song and it's easily the biggest song out of any of the songs nominated. It was a huge hit. And really, I'm just happy for Weeknd as a person.
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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
