Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.
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Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way,And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say.Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend:You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
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My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
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I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.
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My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.
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When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
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When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
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With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
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It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.
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Isn't Fate Artistic?
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.
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Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
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To the valiant actions speak alone.
