Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
