William Congreve Quotes
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I wanna live.
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
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In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
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I love my name. I didn't used to when I was a kid. People called me Lucky Charms, after the breakfast cereal.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
