Will Rogers Quotes
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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Faust klagt über die zwei Seelen in seiner Brust; ich beherberge aber eine ganze Menge, die sich zanken. Es geht da zu wie in einer Republik... Das meiste, was sie sagen, teile ich mit. Es sind da aber auch ganze Provinzen, in die ich nie einen andern Menschen werde hineinsehen lassen.
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Most people only use their griddles for pancakes, but you can sear vegetables like sliced zucchini or mushrooms, thinly sliced meats like chicken or pork, or thinly sliced fish or squid.
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I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.
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It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
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Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
