Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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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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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
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Grief is love not wanting to let go.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
