John Heywood Quotes
And also I shall to reueng former hurtis, Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
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I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
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To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
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It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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And also I shall to reueng former hurtis, Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.
