William Shakespeare Quotes
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.
Quotes to Explore
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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I'm not an expert, but I want to be.
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The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.
