Persius Quotes
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
Rachel Weisz -
If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
Taylor Caldwell -
If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
Camila Alves -
Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett -
The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
OMI -
I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
Talulah Riley
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
Sam Graves -
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl Sagan -
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
Garth Stein -
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. Somerset Maugham -
People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
Manny Montana -
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving
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The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
Live, for I love you!
Edmond Rostand -
No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
It’s still unfathomable that Russia went from joyously celebrating the end of totalitarianism to electing a KGB lieutenant-colonel in just nine years. Never take your liberty for granted, and be careful whom you vote for because it may be the last election you’ll ever have.
Garry Kasparov -
‘She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.’
Anthony Burgess -
I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
Daniel Cudmore
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
Gale Sayers -
I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
Jack Whitehall -
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
Anderson Cooper -
It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.
Denis Shapovalov -
He conquers who endures.
Persius