Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.
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I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
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Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
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The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
