William Cowper Quotes
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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I don't really yell at people.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.
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If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
