William Shakespeare Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
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I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.
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Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
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We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.
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The play's the thing.
