Lao Tzu Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
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Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
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Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.
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I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.
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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
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Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.
