Joseph Priestley Quotes
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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I'm a bed monster.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.
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After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.
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Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
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Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.
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Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.
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You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.
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Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
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While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.
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I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
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It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
