William Cowper Quotes
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
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I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.
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Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
