Boris Johnson Quotes
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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When we launched WeWork back in 2010, we saw our opportunity to build community by bringing people together.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
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A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.
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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
