William Shakespeare Quotes
Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
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There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
