Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
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I am a pattern watcher. (p. 311)
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Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.
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You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
