R. S. Thomas Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
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Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
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I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'
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If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.
