Wilfred Thesiger Quotes
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
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And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
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The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].
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I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.
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I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.
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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
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What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
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Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
