William Cowper Quotes
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.
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Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
