Solon Quotes
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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I like to improvise.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.
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You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
