John Donne Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
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I've always wanted to win in my hometown.
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As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
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Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
