William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I do not believe in planning.
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Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
