John Gay Quotes
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd.—For death is a debt, A debt on demand.—So take what I owe.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
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Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd.—For death is a debt, A debt on demand.—So take what I owe.
