W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I can paint in jail.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as I am, he would have made mixtapes for his movies instead of letting some schmuck write the soundtracks for him. But then if he were as talented as I am, he'd be Zach Braff. And have his own Grammy.
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I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.
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