William Wilberforce Quotes
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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Q3 Is there any knowledge of things unseen, or not?
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.
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As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
