James Russell Lowell Quotes
If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You have to be yourself.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
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I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
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The door for discussions is still open. Only you can say whether it (possibilities of a grand alliance) is a closed chapter.
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Mugliando sopra il mar va il gregge bianco.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
