William Wilberforce Quotes
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts.
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I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
