Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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We took her to see Dorothy Hamill at the Morris (Performing Arts Center), and she was delighted, ... She thought it was awesome.
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There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.
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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
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Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
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In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
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And even within cities you have different dynamics in each asset class.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
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I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
