James Russell Lowell Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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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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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
