William Collins Quotes
Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.
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Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
