Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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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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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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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 have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.
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Believe the best of everybody.
