John Milton Quotes
And the jocund rebecks soundTo many a youth, and many a maid,Dancing in the checkered shade.And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.
Quotes to Explore
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
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I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
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I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
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With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.
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Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.
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And the jocund rebecks soundTo many a youth, and many a maid,Dancing in the checkered shade.And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.
