William Wilberforce Quotes
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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Although actions speak louder than words, I believe it is our intentions that reveal our soul. Refrain from judging others based solely on their words and actions, and seek to know their deepest intentions so that you can know who they truly aspire to be, and support them in becoming the best version of themselves.
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There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.
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Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.
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This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
