Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I was thinking when he hit his 500th home run about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
