James Boswell Quotes
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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The question 'Why do we use language?' seems hardly to require an answer. But, as is often the way with linguistic questions, our everyday familiarity with speech and writing can make it difficult to appreciate the complexity of the skills, we have learned. This is particularly so when we try to define the range of functions to which language can be put.
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A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
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The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.
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A secure life and a well developed social system; not many people fall through the net. And shared values, I would say; that sense of equality...
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Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.
