Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.
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Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. - The judge
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The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.
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Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.
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I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
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My first movie was with Mike Nichols.
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I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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He who does not tire, tires adversity.
