William Congreve Quotes
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve
Quotes to Explore
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
Victor Davis Hanson
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
M. J. Rose
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
Laura Carmichael
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Taylor Swift
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
Orhan Pamuk
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
Jackie Earle Haley
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
Yu Chui Yee
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Salman Rushdie
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
Nasim Pedrad
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It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time.
Liza Donnelly
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The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.
Plautus
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Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.
Harry Lloyd
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If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.
Janet Reno
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John Ruskin
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve
