William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
Quotes to Explore
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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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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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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To pray diligently is more than half the task.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
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Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
