Lady Gregory Quotes
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
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Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
