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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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.
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I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.
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I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
