Elijah Fenton Quotes
Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
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The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.
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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
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While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.
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Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.
