William Shakespeare Quotes
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
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I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.
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As merry as the day is long.
