Oliver Emberton Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.
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People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
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What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.
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If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.
