William Shakespeare Quotes
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
Quotes to Explore
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
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Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
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There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
