John Keats Quotes

For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.

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• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

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• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

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• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  

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• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

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• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

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• Writing bores me so.

  

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• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  

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• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

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• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  

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• The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

  

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• I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

  

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• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

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• When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'

  

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• A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.

  

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• In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.

  

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• I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

  

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• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

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• There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

  

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• I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.

  

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• For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.

  

  John Keats
  • Calm