William Montagu-Pollock Quotes
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.
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I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
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Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.
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Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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I'm innocent. It's a conspiracy by you know who.
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Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour.
