William Congreve Quotes
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
Quotes to Explore
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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'Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie.
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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
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It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
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Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
