Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
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Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.
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Whenever I do get to work with John Barrowman, it is absolutely a joy. We just crack each other up.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
