William Shakespeare Quotes
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.
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Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
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I think there is a strong sentiment that there needs to be change in the district. There are some who believe that is tied to seeking a different superintendent. Our association is not seeking that.
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Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better.
