H. Rider Haggard Quotes
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.
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My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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Don't react with fear and panic in the face of debt collector threats. Talk to them and explain your situation. See if you can work out a compromise.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
