William Cowper Quotes
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I'm very humble.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
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It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.
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Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
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As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
