William Shakespeare Quotes
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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A skunk by any other name still stinks.
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That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.
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Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
