William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Faith is important to me.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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At last, the golden orientall gateOf greatest heaven gan to open fayre,And Phœbus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate,Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre;And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
