Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
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Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.
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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.
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If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.
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Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
