Emma Orczy Quotes
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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White America is in the minority.
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When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.
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I always cry at weddings; they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.
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New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.
