Rudyard Kipling Quotes
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
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On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
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I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
