Francis Beaumont Quotes
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.
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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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You are no better than you should be.
