William Wetmore Story Quotes
I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
