Thomas Hood Quotes
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
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From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.
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I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age - to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis.
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My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
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O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
