John Betjeman Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
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In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.
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A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.
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One mark of good verse is surprise.
