Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
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People take things so seriously.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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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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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
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A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.
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Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
