Florence Welch Quotes
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I'm not a sun person.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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I love bipolar people.
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I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
