Saint Augustine Quotes
You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
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All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.
