Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I get letters from people saying one of the things they like best about what I've done since 'Bewitched' is that they never know what I'm going to do next.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
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For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.
