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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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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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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I'm an all-American girl.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Sometimes when I'm healthier on a big day, I feel better about myself. If I eat terribly and I don't sleep well and I drink too much - three or four or five days in a row - it really catches up to me. It's good to have one fun day, as I call it, whether it be a Saturday, a Sunday, a Monday. It doesn't matter.
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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.
