Bob Greene Quotes
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
Idris Elba
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
Eddie Murphy
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
Fiona Apple
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
Kate Smith
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Sam Mendes
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
Baruch Spinoza
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If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.
Angelus Silesius
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey
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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.
Douglas Rushkoff
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'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
Kathe Koja
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I take care of my voice. I don't go to loud discos where I have to shout; I don't have iced drinks.
Neil Sedaka
