W. S. Gilbert Quotes
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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I grew up on a tiny little island.
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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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I don't care if it's a preseason game or not. You want to win.
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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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I never had to do anything specific to craft my 'image.' I wanted people to know that I was a goofball, that I didn't take myself too seriously, and that I love what I do. On my Twitter and Instagram, whenever I can, I try and show myself. I'm not trying to be an Instagram model.
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When we say nasty things about other people, we’re really criticizing something in them that we don’t like in ourselves.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
