W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
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The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.
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There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
