William Shakespeare Quotes
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
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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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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is
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Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
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I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.
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The importance of teachers in American education has never been a question, but recent research has established beyond doubt that the most important element of student achievement is the quality of the teacher. At the Corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the Corporation is committed to. We are pleased to join forces with the Annenberg Foundation in pursuit of this goal.
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Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
