Emily Dickinson Quotes
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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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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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
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And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.
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I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
