Xerxes I Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
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I think the world needs to see more of my face.
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Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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Only by great risks can great results be achieved.
