Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.
