George Henry Lewes Quotes
The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
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There are disparities in accessing quality maternity health care in most every country, and most all health systems could and must be improved upon if we want to create healthy families who will thrive.
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There are days when I almost forget that I fought in that war. It was such a long time ago. I was young, so young, so fucking young. And all that's left of my youth is in my head. You know, the head, it's like a map. Not a map that gives you directions, but a map with names on it–names of guys who were killed in the war, names of the people you left behind, names of countries and villages and cities. Names. After all these years, that's all that's left. Names. But no directions. And no way to reach them, no way to get back what you lost.
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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
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The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
