William Gilmore Simms Quotes
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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You have to be yourself.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
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I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
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We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it.
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The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
