Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I'm not a leading man.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.
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I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
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Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.
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You have to open up on stage.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
