Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.
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The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.
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A me non par che ben deciso,Né che ben giusto alcun giudicio cada,Ove prima non s'oda quanto nieghiLa parte o affermi, e sue ragioni alleghi.
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A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.
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Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.
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To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
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Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.
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My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
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My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
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Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
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The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
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The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.
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That phrase, 'loss of innocence,' has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.
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You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.
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The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
