W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.
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The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
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If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.
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If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
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There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
