Phillips Brooks Quotes
O little town of Bethlehem,How still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shinethThe everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee to-night.

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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
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How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling,
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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
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Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless.
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Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
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O little town of Bethlehem,How still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shinethThe everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee to-night.