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.
Dito Montiel -
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
