William Ernest Henley Quotes
Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.
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People often ask, 'What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?' A flip answer would be, 'The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!'
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In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
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Pseudo‑events do, of course, increase our illusion of grasp on the world, what some have called the American illusion of omnipotence. Perhaps, we come to think, the world’s problems can really be settled by 'statements,' by 'Summit' meetings, by a competition of 'prestige,' by overshadowing images, and by political quiz shows.
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Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.
