John Henry Newman Quotes
There is in stillness oft a magic powerTo calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;Touch'd by its influence, in the soul ariseDiviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.
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The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
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There is in stillness oft a magic powerTo calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;Touch'd by its influence, in the soul ariseDiviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
