William Gurnall Quotes
Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.
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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
