William Blake Quotes
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
