John Clare Quotes
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,My friends forsake me like a memory lost:I am the self-consumer of my woes,They rise and vanish in oblivious host,Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:And yet I am, and live with shadows tost
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.
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I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
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When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends.
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I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,My friends forsake me like a memory lost:I am the self-consumer of my woes,They rise and vanish in oblivious host,Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:And yet I am, and live with shadows tost
