Walter Savage Landor Quotes
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I do not like violence.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
