Fred Perry Quotes
To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.
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I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
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To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
