Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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Who does understand life?
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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Religion is a collective insanity.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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He made his decision and we respect that, given his history of injuries from a year ago and the fact that he only played in 14 games in 2005.
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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
