Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Quotes
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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Throughout history new and correct ideas have often failed at the outset to win recognition from the majority of people and have to develop by twists and turns in struggle. Often correct and good things have first been regarded not as fragrant flowers but poisonous weeds.
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Ring the bells that still can ring.Forget your perfect offering.There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.
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A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose... And when you manage to find that work - that's when it starts feeling like play.
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.
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Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
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London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.
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Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.
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This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
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If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
