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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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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It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
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The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.
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I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.
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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
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The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
