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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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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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'
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But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
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Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
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Only by great risks can great results be achieved.
