William Shakespeare Quotes
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
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On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
