R. C. Sherriff Quotes
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
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When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
