Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.
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I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'
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I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
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I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
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I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director, so it's really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time.
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I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
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Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
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Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
