Joseph Addison Quotes
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
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What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
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I really like the last three Luna records a whole lot, especially 'Penthouse.' I think of all the records I've done, that's my favorite. I don't know why, really. I don't know why some records turn out better than others. It's not a science.
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An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
