Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I like how small you can be on TV.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
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I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.
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To live is to war with trolls.
