Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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Men lie all the time.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Naqi suspected that the ability to turn drunkenness on and off like a switch must be one of the most hallowed of diplomatic skills.
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I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
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The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.
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Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
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We wanted to play with passion and excitement, and we did that. We could have very well have won the game. We played well enough to win.
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
