William Shakespeare Quotes

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Always

• A lot of people don't like me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Me
  • Like

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• For me, soccer was a dance.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Me
  • Dance
  • Soccer

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Life
  • Space

• In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

  

  Marquis de Sade

• We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • May
  • Political
  • Free

• Make not your thoughts your prisons.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Prison