Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.
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Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
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For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
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A man's perfection is his work.
