John Milton Quotes
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
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I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
