William Shakespeare Quotes
A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
