Walter Scott Quotes
He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comesMay profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.
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I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
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Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
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Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.
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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
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He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comesMay profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.
