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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Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
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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 think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
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After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
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You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.
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Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
