Stevie Smith Quotes
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
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It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.
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Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
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If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
