William Shenstone Quotes
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.
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I don't really take myself very seriously.
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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
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We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
