A. A. Milne Quotes
'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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I need physics more than friends.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
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When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.
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'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'
