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
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
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Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
Ben Harper
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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
Luke Evans
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When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.
Nicki Minaj
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Be humble. Be yourself.
Bob Greene
