William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
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Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
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Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
