William Shenstone Quotes
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.
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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.
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The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
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What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
