Edmund Burke Quotes
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I'm a character actor.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
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There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
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I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
