Thomas R. Marshall Quotes
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.
