William Congreve Quotes
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
Vince Lombardi -
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
Sam Smith -
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn -
The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
Gavin Newsom -
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis -
We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
Aaron Spelling
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney -
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
Aaron Ruell -
It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
Kaley Cuoco -
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael -
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Walter Kaufmann
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I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!
Cara Delevingne -
Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
Natalie Merchant -
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde -
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
Jack Nicholson -
You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal -
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
Bayard Taylor
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I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
Carl Erskine -
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
William Shakespeare -
To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
Ian Somerhalder -
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
Richard Le Gallienne -
The roots of art and play lie very close together.
Angus Wilson -
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
William Congreve