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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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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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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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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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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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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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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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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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.
