John Milton Quotes
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Quotes to Explore
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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I don't envy young actors.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
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Ideas kill people.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.
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You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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I've always been a night owl.
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Allen Iverson is, like, my all-time hero.
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A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
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I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.
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I closed my eyes, wishing that I could capture this moment in a bottle and revisit it whenever I wanted. I breathed in the scent of his skin and the sex all over us and this new thing we’d created, the fragrance of us.
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
