William Watson Quotes
O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.
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Every man lives at swordspoint.
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O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.
