John Dryden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.
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The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
