H. G. Wells Quotes
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
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I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
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For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.
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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
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I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
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Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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Rowena: You’ve got the subtlety of a bullfrog.
