Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.
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And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.
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Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
