John Webster Quotes
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
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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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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'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 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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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
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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.
