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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My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was '75, and everything was happening. My whole teenage life is England, glam rock and David Bowie and Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, all that stuff.
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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
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Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.
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A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.
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Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
