Ed Greenwood Quotes
Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
Quotes to Explore
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I just want to do my job.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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Just when you feel like you get on top, something happens that knocks you down.
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Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
