Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.
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I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
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The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.
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To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
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I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.
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I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.
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Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.
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Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.
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Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
