Thomas Carlyle Quotes
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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I'm very content.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
