Jean Ingelow Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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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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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
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Let Earth and Heaven his timeless death deplore,For both their worths shall equal him no more.
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You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?
