William Shakespeare Quotes
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.
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Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.
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I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.
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I don't watch a lot of TV. I just don't have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorganized, I don't have any kind of consistent schedule. Usually, I pop in a DVD or flip around when I get home at 4 in the morning and try to fall asleep.
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What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?
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I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.
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Losing hurts me.
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I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.
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At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing.
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
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People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
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The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
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Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.
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What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and I don't know what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily. I believe I should always be good if the sun always shone, and could enjoy myself very well in Siberia on a fine day. And what can life in town offer in the way of pleasure to equal the delight of any one of the calm evenings I have had this month sitting alone at the foot of the verandah steps, with the perfume of young larches all about, and the May moon hanging low over the beeches, and the beautiful silence made only more profound in its peace by the croaking of distant frogs and hooting of owls?
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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
