John Webster Quotes
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.
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I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
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I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.
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But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
