Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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I choose to express myself.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
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Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night.
