James Russell Lowell Quotes
Ez fer war, I call it murder-There you hev it plain an' flat;I don't want to go no furderThan my Testyment fer that.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
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The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.
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Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?
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Ez fer war, I call it murder-There you hev it plain an' flat;I don't want to go no furderThan my Testyment fer that.
