Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I never responded to teaching.
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I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
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My musical career was an accident.
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
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You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
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They demen gladly to the badder end.
