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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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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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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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
