William Shakespeare Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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There are women whose love only ends with death.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.
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Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.