William Penn Quotes
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
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I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.
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Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.
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Where slavery exists, the republican theory becomes still more fallacious.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
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I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.
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I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
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Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't there.
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Somebody high up was toying with the idea of allowing them to breed. Some sort of industrial use. We withheld euth for years. But Cris Johnson stayed alive outside our control. Those things at Denver were under constant scrutiny.
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The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
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I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.
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When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.
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We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
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One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
