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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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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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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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
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...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
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I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.
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Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
