Samuel Beckett Quotes
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I was an English major in college!
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.
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When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can relate to that.
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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
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My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
