Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I grew up in New York.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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If you look at the first TV stuff I did years ago, I've a pretty chubby look about me. I went at it quite hard in the gym at the time. If any footage of me ever came out from those days, I would genuinely die. I did step aerobics to lose the weight, and then I literally ran and ran the weight off on a treadmill.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
