Thomas Carlyle Quotes
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
