Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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When I come home from training, my attention immediately has to focus on my school courses, which helps keep the stress level balanced. I mostly balance both by drinking a lot of coffee and making sure I time manage well, which doesn't happen all the time, especially during finals week.
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For some reason, I always wanted to work in an environment where things weren't so good. I'm no messiah, but I always wanted to try and make a difference where a team hadn't prospered.
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Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
