William Cowper Quotes
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
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Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.
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Wasn’t a live chicken - that would not have been kind to the chicken - but a whole, plucked chicken.
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Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
