Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.
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The border is, if not wide open, then certainly open enough to get what the demand requires inside of the country. Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States.
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My coaches and teammates really trusted me and gave me a chance to improve. They would come to me after a game I didn't score and say, 'Hey, don't worry about it. Next game you'll score.' The guys were great. It's an unbelievable team. It feels like home for me.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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Believe the best of everybody.
