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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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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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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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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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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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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In chess there is a world of intellectual values.
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Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.
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I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.
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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.
