William Golding Quotes
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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No two wars are identical.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.
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Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
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It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
