Edmund Burke Quotes
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Quotes to Explore
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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I expect to play every play. I want to play, that's what I'm here for. I don't expect to sit out.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
