Stuart Townsend (Stuart Peter Townsend) Quotes
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.
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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.
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Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
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I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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It's time to believe in what you know.
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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
