Samuel Johnson Quotes
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
