W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it, they just can't go there for vanity's sake, and they don't want to be perceived in an ugly way. I was like, 'Nah, I wanna go for this.'
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It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
