William Cowper Quotes
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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We never get so near God as when we plead for others.
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Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
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Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
