John Dryden Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
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The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.
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I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drewHis spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
