James Russell Lowell Quotes
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
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I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.
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It's in God's hands.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
