Charles XII of Sweden Quotes
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
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You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
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I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
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Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.
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In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.
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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
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You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
