Samuel Johnson Quotes
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Writing bores me so.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
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I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
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If you want the world to knowWe won't let hatred growPut a little love in your heart.
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In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.
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A man who contradicts himself may have succeeded in exercising his vocal chords. But from the point of view of imparting information, of communicating facts (or falsehoods) it is as if he had never opened his mouth. He utters words, but does not say anything.
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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
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Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy.
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As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.
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I'm such a dog person. I dunno, I just feel like it really enriches your life, to have something to care for.
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
