William Morris Quotes
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
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In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
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Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.
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When somebody throws something out the car window, honk at them, but don't give them the finger. We've got to temper our negative feelings about people who desecrate the environment.
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Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
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When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
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There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'
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As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
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It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'
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I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
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The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
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Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
