C.J. Sansom Quotes
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.
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In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.
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We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.
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We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
