William Shakespeare Quotes
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Women drive box office.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
