John Milton Quotes
The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground.
Quotes to Explore
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.
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After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
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I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.
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The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground.
