John Dryden Quotes
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
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If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!
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Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
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I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
