Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski -
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
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'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
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Though he made a joke when asked to do the right thing, he always did it. He was so much more in earnest than he appeared. He did not do himself justice.
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One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.
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I've decided that I'm completely rock n' roll.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
