Frederic William Farrar Quotes
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
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Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
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When you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.
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On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.
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Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
