Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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Africa is the future.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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No actor wants to play to an empty house.
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Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
