William Shakespeare Quotes
Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Quotes to Explore
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
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I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
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Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
