Augustus Toplady Quotes
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?
